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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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Americans make money by playing `money games,' namely mergers, acquisitions, by simply moving money back and forth ... instead of creating and producing goods with some actual value.

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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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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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My chief job is to constantly stir or rekindle the curiosity of people that gets driven out by bureaucracy and formal schooling systems.

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

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If you go through life convinced that your way is always best, all the new ideas in the world will pass you by.

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

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From a management standpoint, it is very important to know how to unleash people's inborn creativity. My concept is that anybody has creative ability, but very few people know how to use it.

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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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Without an organisation that can work together, sometimes over a very long period, it's difficult to see new projects to fruition.

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

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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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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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