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.

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.

When I find an employee who turns out to be wrong for the job, I feel it is my fault because I made the decision to hire him.

To gain profit is important, but you must invest to build up assets that you can cash in in the future.

If you don't want Japan to buy it, don't sell it.

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

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.