There are three creativities: creativity in technology, in product planning, and in marketing.
AKIO MORITATo gain profit is important, but you must invest to build up assets that you can cash in in the future.
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You can be totally rational with a machine.
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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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The public does not know what is possible. We do.
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But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.
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An enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.
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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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I established the rule that once we hire an employee, his school records are a matter of the past and are no longer used to evaluate his work or decide on his promotion.
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While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
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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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From a management standpoint, it is very important to know how to unleash people’s inborn creativity.
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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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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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Advertising and promotion alone will not sustain a bad product or a product that is not right for the times.
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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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But make sure you don’t make the same mistake twice.
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