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

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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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I have always made it a point to know our employees, to visit every facility of our company, and to try to meet and know every single employee.

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

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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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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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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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An enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.

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

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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 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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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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