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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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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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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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The important thing in my view is not to pin the blame for a mistake on somebody, but rather to find out what caused the mistake.
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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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There is no secret ingredient or hidden formula responsible for the success of the best Japanese companies.
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I believe people work for satisfaction.
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The only sure thing is that in business there are no sure things.
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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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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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Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target. The best example of this was the Apollo project in the United States.
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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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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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We want everybody to have the best facilities in which to work, but we do not believe in posh and impressive private offices.
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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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Never break another man's rice bowl.
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Advertising and promotion alone will not sustain a bad product or a product that is not right for the times.
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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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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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