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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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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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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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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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An enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.

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

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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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Without an organisation that can work together, sometimes over a very long period, it's difficult to see new projects to fruition.

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From a management standpoint, it is very important to know how to unleash people's inborn creativity. My concept is that anybody has creative ability, but very few people know how to use it.

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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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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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