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

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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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Our plan is to lead the public with new products rather than ask them what kind of products they want.

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

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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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In the United States businessmen often do not trust their colleagues. If you trust your colleague today, he may be your competitor tomorrow, because people frequently move from one company to another.

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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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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 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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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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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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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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You can be totally rational with a machine. But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.

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I believe people work for satisfaction.

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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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All you need is the best product in the world, the most efficient production in the world and global marketing.

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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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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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