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

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

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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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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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An enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.

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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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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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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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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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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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America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.

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

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

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

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