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Curiosity is the key to creativity.

Akio Morita

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Akio Morita
Age: 78 †
Born: 1921
Born: January 26
Died: 1999
Died: October 3
Businessman
Businessperson
Engineer
Physicist
Curiosity
Keys
Creativity
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I established the rule that once we hire an employee, his school records are a matter of the past and are no longer used to evaluate his work or decide on his promotion.
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I believe it is a big mistake to think that money is the only way to compensate a person for his work. People need money, but they also want to be happy in their work and proud of it.
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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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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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To gain profit is important, but you must invest to build up assets that you can cash in in the future.
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The only sure thing is that in business there are no sure things.
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Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
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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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If you don't want Japan to buy it, don't sell it.
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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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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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I believe one of the reasons we went through such a remarkable growth period was that we had this atmosphere of free discussion.
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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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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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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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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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If we face recession, we should not lay off employees the company should sacrifice a profit. It's management's risk and management's responsibility. Employees are not guilty why should they suffer?
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