Carefully watch how people live, get an intuitive sense as to what they might want and then go with it.
AKIO MORITAMy solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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You can be totally rational with a machine.
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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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People need money, but they also want to be happy in their work and proud of it.
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The public does not know what is possible. We do.
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We all learn by imitating, as children, as students, as novices in the world of business.
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Our plan is to lead the public with new products rather than ask them what kind of products they want.
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If you don’t want Japan to buy it, don’t sell it.
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And then we grow up and learn to blend our innate abilities with the rules or principles we have learned.
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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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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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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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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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Don’t do market research.
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Management 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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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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If you go through life convinced that your way is always best, all the new ideas in the world will pass you by.
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My chief job is to constantly stir or rekindle the curiosity of people that gets driven out by bureaucracy and formal schooling systems.
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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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A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.
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I believe people work for satisfaction.
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Employees are not guilty; why should they suffer?
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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 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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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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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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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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