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

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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 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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While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.

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

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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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I believe people work for satisfaction.

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If you don't want Japan to buy it, don't sell it.

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

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America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.

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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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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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I often say to my assistants, "Never trust anybody," but what I mean is that you should never trust someone else to do a job exactly the way you would want it done.

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