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The key to success for Sony, and to everything in business, science and technology for that matter, is never to follow the others.
Masaru Ibuka
— Masaru Ibuka
Co-founder of Sony
Masaru Ibuka, founder of Sony, quoted in Fortune (24 Feb 1992). In Julia Vitullo-Martin and J. Robert Moskin, The Executive's Book of Quotations (2002), 271.

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Masaru Ibuka, founder of Sony, quoted in Fortune (24 Feb 1992). In Julia Vitullo-Martin and J. Robert Moskin, The Executive's Book of Quotations (2002), 271.
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