Akio Morita Quotes

...if you are nothing but profit-conscious, you cannot see the opportunities ahead.

Akio Morita

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• Escapism, we are led to believe, is evidence of a deficiency in character, a certain failure of temperament, and like so many -isms, it is to be strenuously avoided. 'How do you expect to get ahead?,' people ask. But the question altogether misses the point. The escapist doesn't want to get ahead. He simply wants to get away.

  

  J. Maarten Troost
  • People
  • Believe
  • Character

• Look, all administrations, all governments lie, all officials lie and nothing they say is to be believed. That's a pretty good rule.

  

  Daniel Ellsberg
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Look

• Even if you're happy with the life you've chosen, you're still curious about the other options.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Curious

• I write for somebody who has my own limitations. My reader has a certain difficulty with concentrating, which in my case comes from being a film viewer.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Film
  • Limitations
  • My Own

• People see me because I'm winning my fights. That's how I want people seeing me.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • People
  • Want
  • Me

• I think at Le Cirque I learned how to make real food, which is what people crave, not just gimmicky things on a plate.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • People
  • Real
  • Think

• The general message would be to say to all these young people: If you have entrepreneurial aspirations, there is money, there are consumers, there is a huge market. The only thing you need to do is to go there and start doing things.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • People
  • Money
  • Start

• Professional men, they have no cares; whatever happens, they get theirs.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Men
  • Professional
  • Happens

• When you're dealing with machines or anything that you build, it either works or it doesn't, no matter how good of a salesman you are.

  

  Marc Andreesen
  • Good
  • You
  • Matter

• Cofounder relationships are among the most important in the entire company.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Important
  • Company

• It is not true that I oppose government funding of the arts.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • True
  • Government
  • Arts

• Our brain is mapping the world. Often that map is distorted, but it's a map with constant immediate sensory input.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • World
  • Brain
  • Map

• All breathing, existing, living, sentient creatures should not be slain, nor treated with violence, nor abused, nor tormented, nor driven away.

  

  Mahavira
  • Violence

• The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Great
  • Dream

• In times of violence, personal predilections for niceties of colour and form seem irrelevant. All primitive expression (like the myths) reveals the constant awareness of powerful forces, the immediate presence of terror and fear.

  

  Adolph Gottlieb
  • Fear
  • Powerful
  • Violence

• I shall defend this pact with all my strength, and if Fascism does not follow me in collaboration with the Socialists, at least no one can force me to follow Fascism.

  

  Benito Mussolini
  • Collaboration

• Spite, spite, is the word of your undoing!

  

  Arthur Miller

• If, then, God is always in that good state in which we sometimes are, this compels our wonder; and if in a better this compels it yet more. And God is in a better state. And life also belongs to God; for the actuality of thought is life, and God is that actuality; and God's self-dependent actuality is life most good and eternal.

  

  Aristotle
  • Life
  • Good
  • God

• Strangely enough, when the Sugababes' 'Freak Like Me' went to number 1, which was built around my 'Are 'Friends' Electric' song, I had another song called 'Rip' go to number 1 in the Kerrang TV chart, so I was pulling new people in from very different areas of musical interest. That was quite an amazing week.

  

  Gary Numan
  • People
  • Different
  • Friends

• Productivity depends on many factors, including our workforce's knowledge and skills and the quantity and quality of the capital, technology, and infrastructure that they have to work with.

  

  Janet Yellen
  • Work
  • Knowledge
  • Technology

• I wasn't driven. I just really loved what I did.

  

  Jo Stafford

• Postmodernism came nowhere close in quality to Modernism at its apogee, not least because that later style wholly lacked the social impetus that animated the designs most emblematic of the Modern Movement.

  

  Martin Filler
  • Style
  • Quality

• God, on the other side of my table, composes His book whose smoke envelops me: for the flame of my candle is His pen.

  

  Edmond Jabes
  • God
  • Smoke
  • Flame

• ...if you are nothing but profit-conscious, you cannot see the opportunities ahead.

  

  Akio Morita