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You can be totally rational with a machine. But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.

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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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I believe people work for satisfaction.

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

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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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An enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.

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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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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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Of course we have to make a profit, but we have to make a profit over the long haul, not just the short term, and that means we must keep investing in research and development - it has run consistently about 6 percent of sales at Sony - and in service.

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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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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 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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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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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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The only sure thing is that in business there are no sure things.

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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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Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.

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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.

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

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