And then we grow up and learn to blend our innate abilities with the rules or principles we have learned.
AKIO MORITAIf you go through life convinced that your way is always best, all the new ideas in the world will pass you by.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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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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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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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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Management of an industrial company must be giving targets to the engineers constantly; that may be the most important job management has in dealing with its engineers.
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A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.
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America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.
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But make sure you don’t make the same mistake twice.
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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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You can be totally rational with a machine.
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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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Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
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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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Whether we succeed or not depends on the strength of our resolve and the amount of our endeavor.
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We treat employees as a member of the family.
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