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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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Advertising and promotion alone will not sustain a bad product or a product that is not right for the times.

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The public does not know what is possible. We do.

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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 often say to my assistants, "Never trust anybody," but what I mean is that you should never trust someone else to do a job exactly the way you would want it done.

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Never break another man's rice bowl.

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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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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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If you don't want Japan to buy it, don't sell it.

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

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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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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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Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.

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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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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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From a management standpoint, it is very important to know how to unleash people's inborn creativity. My concept is that anybody has creative ability, but very few people know how to use it.

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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 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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