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

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

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

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

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Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.

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

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I established the rule that once we hire an employee, his school records are a matter of the past and are no longer used to evaluate his work or decide on his promotion.

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

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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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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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Curiosity is the key to creativity.

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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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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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