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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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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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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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In the United States businessmen often do not trust their colleagues. If you trust your colleague today, he may be your competitor tomorrow, because people frequently move from one company to another.

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

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

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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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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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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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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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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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An enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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