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

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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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I believe people work for satisfaction.

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

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All you need is the best product in the world, the most efficient production in the world and global marketing.

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Never break another man's rice bowl.

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Curiosity is the key to creativity.

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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target. The best example of this was the Apollo project in the United States.

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

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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 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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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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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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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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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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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 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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