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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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Curiosity is the key to creativity.

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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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Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.

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

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There is no secret ingredient or hidden formula responsible for the success of the best Japanese companies.

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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.

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

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I believe people work for satisfaction.

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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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We all learn by imitating, as children, as students, as novices in the world of business. And then we grow up and learn to blend our innate abilities with the rules or principles we have learned.

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America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.

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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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