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

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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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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.

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

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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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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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We don't believe in market research for a new product unknown to the public. So we never do any.

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

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

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

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