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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 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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Never break another man's rice bowl.

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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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If we face recession, we should not lay off employees; the company should sacrifice a profit. It's management's risk and management's responsibility. Employees are not guilty; why should they suffer?

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

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

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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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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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An enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.

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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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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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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 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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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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