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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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I believe people work for satisfaction.

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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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We don't believe in market research for a new product unknown to the public. So we never do any.

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I knew we needed a weapon to break through to the US market, and it had to be something different, something that nobody else was making.

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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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Never break another man's rice bowl.

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

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

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