The best example of this was the Apollo project in the United States.
AKIO MORITAMore people are interested in trying to shuffle paper assets around than building lasting assets by producing real goods.
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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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We want to keep the company healthy and its employees happy, and we want to keep them on the job and productive.
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The public does not know what is possible. We do.
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Without an organisation that can work together, sometimes over a very long period.
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I believe people work for satisfaction.
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Never break another man’s rice bowl.
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If you don’t want Japan to buy it, don’t sell it.
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While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
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Curiosity is the key to creativity.
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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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To create a familylike feeling within the corporation, a feeling that employees and managers share the same fate.
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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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We all learn by imitating, as children, as students, as novices in the world of business.
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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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I believe one of the reasons we went through such a remarkable growth period was that we had this atmosphere of free discussion.
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