Akio Morita Quotes, Creativity Quotes, Technology Quotes

There are three creativities: creativity in technology, in product planning, and in marketing. To have any one of these without the others is self defeating in business.

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From a management standpoint, it is very important to know how to unleash people's inborn creativity. My concept is that anybody has creative ability, but very few people know how to use it.

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

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Of course we have to make a profit, but we have to make a profit over the long haul, not just the short term, and that means we must keep investing in research and development - it has run consistently about 6 percent of sales at Sony - and in service.

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

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When I find an employee who turns out to be wrong for the job, I feel it is my fault because I made the decision to hire him.

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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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In the United States businessmen often do not trust their colleagues. If you trust your colleague today, he may be your competitor tomorrow, because people frequently move from one company to another.

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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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We don't believe in market research for a new product unknown to the public. So we never do any.

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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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We treat employees as a member of the family. If management take the risk of hiring them, we have to take the responsibility for them.

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Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.

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We all learn by imitating, as children, as students, as novices in the world of business. And then we grow up and learn to blend our innate abilities with the rules or principles we have learned.

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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, every action analysed and every responsibility assigned by an organisation chart.

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The most important mission for a Japanese manager is to develop a healthy relationship with his employees, to create a familylike feeling within the corporation, a feeling that employees and managers share the same fate.

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We want everybody to have the best facilities in which to work, but we do not believe in posh and impressive private offices.

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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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If we do our best and make efforts, a peaceful and great future will become ours without fail. Whether we succeed or not depends on the strength of our resolve and the amount of our endeavor.

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An enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.

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