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

• I tried to get a baseball movie made a couple of years ago and I don't think it didn't happen because I was a woman, but because sports movie don't sell internationally.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • Movie
  • Woman
  • Sports

• 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

• The campaign for birth control is not merely of eugenic value, but is practically identical with the final aims of eugenics.

  

  Margaret Sanger
  • Control
  • Value

• 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

• Science literacy is the artery through which the solutions of tomorrow's problems flow.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • Science

• It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.

  

  Helen Keller
  • Heart
  • Desire
  • Forever

• I didn't tell Ôtani I love him because I want to make out with him. I just love him, that's all. And I want to be with him all the time, even if we're just goofing around and hanging out like we always are.

  

  Aya Nakahara
  • Love
  • Want
  • Goofing Around

• There's a very long and consistent track record on the part of Hillary Clinton, and it's not been favorable to women, to children, to the cause of peace, justice, and a sustainable climate.

  

  Jill Stein
  • Long
  • Women
  • Children

• I've lived in LA for so long, I don't even know what is real and what isn't any more.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Long
  • Real
  • Know

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

  

  Akio Morita