Akio Morita Quotes, Jobs Quotes, Creativity Quotes

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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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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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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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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Americans make money by playing `money games,' namely mergers, acquisitions, by simply moving money back and forth ... instead of creating and producing goods with some actual value.

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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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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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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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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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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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America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.

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(Japanese Government believes that if you have a big laboratory with all the latest equipment and good funding it will automatically lead to creativity. It doesn't work that way.

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I believe people work for satisfaction.

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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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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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Without an organisation that can work together, sometimes over a very long period, it's difficult to see new projects to fruition.

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

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