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

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

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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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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 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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Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.

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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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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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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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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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The only sure thing is that in business there are no sure 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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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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Our plan is to lead the public with new products rather than ask them what kind of products they want.

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The public does not know what is possible. We do.

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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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