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

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

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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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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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Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.

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

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Curiosity is the key to creativity.

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We want everybody to have the best facilities in which to work, but we do not believe in posh and impressive private offices.

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

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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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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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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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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 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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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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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 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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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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