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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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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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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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An enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.

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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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More people are interested in trying to shuffle paper assets around than building lasting assets by producing real goods.

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

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

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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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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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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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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 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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A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.

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Never break another man's rice bowl.

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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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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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