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

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

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There is no secret ingredient or hidden formula responsible for the success of the best Japanese companies.

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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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Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.

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Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.

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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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Never break another man's rice bowl.

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

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An enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.

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