“Never break another man’s rice bowl.”

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.

And what one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.

So here you are, in your twenties, thinking that you’ll have another 40 years to go.

As a society, we are so wrapped up in our own artificial creations that we have become disconnected from one another and the wonder of our natural world.

I’m one of the artists that even though I love my soulful stuff, I love to turn up and have a good time and that’s another side of me.

Understanding that which is foreign to you is fundamental to cultivating a sense of connection and unity with one another.

We need to be good partners and good neighbors to one another.

They are wrong. They now sit in another faculty. Their names are Max Planck and Albert Einstein.

That was another incredible thing: the opportunity to be in Greenland, a place I had read about in NatGeo a decade before.