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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
Graduation
Curiosity
Keys
Creativity

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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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There is no secret ingredient or hidden formula responsible for the success of the best Japanese companies.
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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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Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.
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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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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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An enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.
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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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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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If you don't want Japan to buy it, don't sell it.
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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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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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