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

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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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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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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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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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Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.

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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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All you need is the best product in the world, the most efficient production in the world and global marketing.

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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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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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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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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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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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An enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.

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America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.

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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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More people are interested in trying to shuffle paper assets around than building lasting assets by producing real goods.

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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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