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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.

Akio Morita

To have any one of these without the others is self defeating in business.
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Any Business Defeat One Without
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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Believe Everybody Facility Impressive Office Posh Private Want Work
My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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Always Creativity Problem Set Target Unreleased
The remarkable thing about management is that a manager can go on for years making mistakes that nobody is aware of, which means that management can be a kind of a con job.
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Aware Job Kind Making Management Manager Mean Mistake Remarkable Yera
And then we grow up and learn to blend our innate abilities with the rules or principles we have learned.
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Ability Blend Grow Innate Learn Principle Up
A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.
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Company Left Manage Nowhere Think
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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Anybody Assistant Else Exact Job Mean Someone Trust Want
I have always made it a point to know our employees, to visit every facility of our company, and to try to meet and know every single employee.
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Always Company Employee Facility Made Meet Single Trying
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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Creative Energetic Intelligent Once People Prepare Staff
If management take the risk of hiring them, we have to take the responsibility for them.
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Hiring Management Responsible Risk Take
Curiosity is the key to creativity.
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Creativity Graduation Key Machine Ration
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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Break Country Different Market Need Something Through Weapon
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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Country Create Creating Game Good Merger Money Moving Namely Play Treat
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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Blame Cause Important Mistake Pin Somebody Thing View
The “patron saint” of Japanese quality control, ironically, is an American named W. Edwards Deming, who was virtually unknown in his own country until his ideas of quality control began to make such a big impact on Japanese companies.
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Began Big Country Idea Impact Ironically Quality Virtual
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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Company Executive Leadership Necessary Personnel Quality Show Thing Way

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