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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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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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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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While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.

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Never break another man's rice bowl.

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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target. The best example of this was the Apollo project in the United States.

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We treat employees as a member of the family. If management take the risk of hiring them, we have to take the responsibility for them.

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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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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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We don't believe in market research for a new product unknown to the public. So we never do any.

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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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There is no secret ingredient or hidden formula responsible for the success of the best Japanese companies.

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

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

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

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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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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 people work for satisfaction.

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