My chief job is to constantly stir or rekindle the curiosity of people that gets driven out by bureaucracy and formal schooling systems.
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 important thing in my view is not to pin the blame for a mistake on somebody, but rather to find out what caused the mistake.
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An enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.
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I knew we needed a weapon to break through to the US market, and it had to be something different, something that nobody else was making.
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Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
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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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I established the rule that once we hire an employee, his school records are a matter of the past and are no longer used to evaluate his work or decide on his promotion.
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Every action analysed and every responsibility assigned by an organisation chart.
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Advertising and promotion alone will not sustain a bad product or a product that is not right for the times.
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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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There are three creativities: creativity in technology, in product planning, and in marketing.
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In the long run, no matter how good or successful you are or how clever or crafty.
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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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If we face recession, we should not lay off employees; the company should sacrifice a profit. It’s management’s risk and management’s responsibility.
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To gain profit is important, but you must invest to build up assets that you can cash in in the future.
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Carefully watch how people live, get an intuitive sense as to what they might want and then go with it.
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