To gain profit is important, but you must invest to build up assets that you can cash in in the future.
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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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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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 concept is that anybody has creative ability, but very few people know how to use it.
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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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America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.
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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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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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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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But make sure you don’t make the same mistake twice.
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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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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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To have any one of these without the others is self defeating in 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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Curiosity is the key to creativity.
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