And then we grow up and learn to blend our innate abilities with the rules or principles we have learned.
AKIO MORITAManagement of an industrial company must be giving targets to the engineers constantly; that may be the most important job management has in dealing with its engineers.
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Once you have a staff of prepared, intelligent, and energetic people, the next step is to motivate them to be creative.
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I believe one of the reasons we went through such a remarkable growth period was that we had this atmosphere of free discussion.
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We want everybody to have the best facilities in which to work, but we do not believe in posh and impressive private offices.
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Never break another man’s rice bowl.
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While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
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Americans make money by playing `money games,’ namely mergers, acquisitions, by simply moving money back and forth … instead of creating and producing goods with some actual value.
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The company must not throw money away on huge bonuses for executives or other frivolities but must share its fate with the workers.
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If you trust your colleague today, he may be your competitor tomorrow, because people frequently move from one company to another.
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You can be totally rational with a machine.
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From a management standpoint, it is very important to know how to unleash people’s inborn creativity.
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Employees are not guilty; why should they suffer?
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An enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.
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Curiosity is the key to creativity.
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Whether we succeed or not depends on the strength of our resolve and the amount of our endeavor.
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We don’t believe in market research for a new product unknown to the public. So we never do any.
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