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.
AKIO MORITAAn enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.
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There are three creativities: creativity in technology, in product planning, and in marketing.
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Curiosity is the key to creativity.
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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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In the long run, no matter how good or successful you are or how clever or crafty.
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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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It has run consistently about 6 percent of sales at Sony – and in service.
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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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We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart’s desire their technological capacity.
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If management take the risk of hiring them, we have to take the responsibility for them.
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Don’t do market research.
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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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The best example of this was the Apollo project in the United States.
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While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
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Without an organisation that can work together, sometimes over a very long period.
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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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