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The company must not throw money away on huge bonuses for executives or other frivolities but must share its fate with the workers.

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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 have always made it a point to know our employees, to visit every facility of our company, and to try to meet and know every single employee.

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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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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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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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If we do our best and make efforts, a peaceful and great future will become ours without fail. Whether we succeed or not depends on the strength of our resolve and the amount of our endeavor.

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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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The "patron saint" of Japanese quality control, ironically, is an American named W. Edwards Deming, who was virtually unknown in his own country until his ideas of quality control began to make such a big impact on Japanese companies.

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We all learn by imitating, as children, as students, as novices in the world of business. And then we grow up and learn to blend our innate abilities with the rules or principles we have learned.

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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 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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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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America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.

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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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Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.

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I believe it is a big mistake to think that money is the only way to compensate a person for his work. People need money, but they also want to be happy in their work and proud of it.

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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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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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(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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