Akio Morita Quotes, Creativity Quotes, People Quotes

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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But make sure you don't make the same mistake twice.

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Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.

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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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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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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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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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America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.

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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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The remarkable thing about management is that a manager can go on for years making mistakes that nobody is aware of, which means that management can be a kind of a con job.

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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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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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In the long run, no matter how good or successful you are or how clever or crafty, your business and its future are in the hands of the people you hire.

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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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You can be totally rational with a machine. But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.

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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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Carefully watch how people live, get an intuitive sense as to what they might want and then go with it. Don’t do market research.

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Curiosity is the key to creativity.

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