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Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.

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

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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 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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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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An enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.

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

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

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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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Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.

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If you go through life convinced that your way is always best, all the new ideas in the world will pass you by.

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

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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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