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In the long run, no matter how good or successful you are or how clever or crafty, your business and its future are in the hands of the people you hire.

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America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.

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

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

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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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While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.

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But make sure you don't make the same mistake twice.

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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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Curiosity is the key to 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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To gain profit is important, but you must invest to build up assets that you can cash in in the future.

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The public does not know what is possible. We do.

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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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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 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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