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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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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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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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The most important mission for a Japanese manager is to develop a healthy relationship with his employees, to create a familylike feeling within the corporation, a feeling that employees and managers share the same fate.

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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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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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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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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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Curiosity is the key to creativity.

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

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We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

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Never break another man's rice bowl.

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

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

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

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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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