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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.

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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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America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.

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

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