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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.

Akio Morita

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Akio Morita
Age: 78 †
Born: 1921
Born: January 26
Died: 1999
Died: October 3
Businessman
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Engineer
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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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Curiosity is the key to 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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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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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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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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While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
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A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.
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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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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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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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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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Our plan is to lead the public with new products rather than ask them what kind of products they want.
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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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