“Whether we succeed or not depends on the strength of our resolve and the amount of our endeavor.”

An enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.

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

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

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.

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

There are three creativities: creativity in technology, in product planning, and in marketing.

My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.

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

In the United States businessmen often do not trust their colleagues.

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.

My concept is that anybody has creative ability, but very few people know how to use it.

Management of an industrial company must be giving targets to the engineers constantly; that may be the most important job management has in dealing with its engineers.

But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.

And then we grow up and learn to blend our innate abilities with the rules or principles we have learned.

Don’t do market research.

I believe people work for satisfaction.

I think we’re in a time that calls for that level of courage, that level of resolve.

We have always said there are two ways to resolve Syria, and both will end up with the same result: a Syria without Bashar Assad.

But we have these problems in our region, and nobody has been able to resolve them.

When time and space and change converge, we find place. We arrive in Place when we resolve things.

[Once plans for each eventuality are resolved, further] Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but only saps today of its strength.

Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.

Wise to resolve, patient to perform.

Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.