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.

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.

Once you have a staff of prepared, intelligent, and energetic people, the next step is to motivate them to be creative.

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

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.

My chief job is to constantly stir or rekindle the curiosity of people that gets driven out by bureaucracy and formal schooling systems.

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.