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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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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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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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Advertising and promotion alone will not sustain a bad product or a product that is not right for the times.

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I established the rule that once we hire an employee, his school records are a matter of the past and are no longer used to evaluate his work or decide on his promotion.

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The "patron saint" of Japanese quality control, ironically, is an American named W. Edwards Deming, who was virtually unknown in his own country until his ideas of quality control began to make such a big impact on Japanese companies.

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

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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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(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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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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Never break another man's rice bowl.

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The important thing in my view is not to pin the blame for a mistake on somebody, but rather to find out what caused the mistake.

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

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The most important mission for a Japanese manager is to develop a healthy relationship with his employees, to create a familylike feeling within the corporation, a feeling that employees and managers share the same fate.

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America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.

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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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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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Our plan is to lead the public with new products rather than ask them what kind of products they want.

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