More people are interested in trying to shuffle paper assets around than building lasting assets by producing real goods.
AKIO MORITAThere 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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The company must not throw money away on huge bonuses for executives or other frivolities but must share its fate with the workers.
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You can be totally rational with a machine.
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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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Curiosity is the key to creativity.
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Employees are not guilty; why should they suffer?
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The only sure thing is that in business there are no sure things.
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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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And then we grow up and learn to blend our innate abilities with the rules or principles we have learned.
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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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If management take the risk of hiring them, we have to take the responsibility for them.
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Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
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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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There is no secret ingredient or hidden formula responsible for the success of the best Japanese companies.
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When I find an employee who turns out to be wrong for the job,
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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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Without an organisation that can work together, sometimes over a very long period.
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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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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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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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America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.
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Every action analysed and every responsibility assigned by an organisation chart.
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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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Whether we succeed or not depends on the strength of our resolve and the amount of our endeavor.
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My concept is that anybody has creative ability, but very few people know how to use it.
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To have any one of these without the others is self defeating in business.
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