Once you have a staff of prepared, intelligent, and energetic people, the next step is to motivate them to be creative.
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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The only sure thing is that in business there are no sure things.
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There are three creativities: creativity in technology, in product planning, and in marketing.
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Executives of the company must have the necessary qualities to direct the personnel by showing them the way to do things.
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More people are interested in trying to shuffle paper assets around than building lasting assets by producing real goods.
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Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.
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You can be totally rational with a machine.
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Never break another man’s rice bowl.
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To have any one of these without the others is self defeating in business.
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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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While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
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If we do our best and make efforts, a peaceful and great future will become ours without fail.
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Every action analysed and every responsibility assigned by an organisation chart.
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An enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.
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Of course we have to make a profit, but we have to make a profit over the long haul, not just the short term, and that means we must keep investing in research and development.
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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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