Akio Morita Quotes

More people are interested in trying to shuffle paper assets around than building lasting assets by producing real goods.

There are three creativities: creativity in technology, in product planning, and in marketing.

My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.

My chief job is to constantly stir or rekindle the curiosity of people that gets driven out by bureaucracy and formal schooling systems.

In the United States businessmen often do not trust their colleagues.

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.

My concept is that anybody has creative ability, but very few people know how to use it.

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.

And then we grow up and learn to blend our innate abilities with the rules or principles we have learned.

But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.