My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
AKIO MORITAMy concept is that anybody has creative ability, but very few people know how to use it.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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I believe it is a big mistake to think that money is the only way to compensate a person for his work.
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(Japanese Government believes that if you have a big laboratory with all the latest equipment and good funding it will automatically lead to creativity. It doesn’t work that way.
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All you need is the best product in the world, the most efficient production in the world and global marketing.
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The best example of this was the Apollo project in the United States.
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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 feel it is my fault because I made the decision to hire him.
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To create a familylike feeling within the corporation, a feeling that employees and managers share the same fate.
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It has run consistently about 6 percent of sales at Sony – and in service.
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An enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.
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I consider it my job to nurture the creativity of the people I work with because at Sony we know that a terrific idea is more likely to happen in an open, free and trusting atmosphere than when everything is calculated.
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But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.
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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 often say to my assistants, “Never trust anybody,” but what I mean is that you should never trust someone else to do a job exactly the way you would want it done.
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Your business and its future are in the hands of the people you hire.
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Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
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People need money, but they also want to be happy in their work and proud of it.
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The only sure thing is that in business there are no sure things.
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Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.
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When I find an employee who turns out to be wrong for the job,
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If management take the risk of hiring them, we have to take the responsibility for them.
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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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America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.
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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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If you don’t want Japan to buy it, don’t sell it.
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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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Employees are not guilty; why should they suffer?
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