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If you don't want Japan to buy it, don't sell it.

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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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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target. The best example of this was the Apollo project in the United States.

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

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

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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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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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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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The remarkable thing about management is that a manager can go on for years making mistakes that nobody is aware of, which means that management can be a kind of a con job.

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An enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.

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

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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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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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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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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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