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Never break another man's rice bowl.

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

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

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Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.

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

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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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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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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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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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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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I believe people work for satisfaction.

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Management of an industrial company must be giving targets to the engineers constantly; that may be the most important job management has in dealing with its engineers.

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