Akio Morita Quotes
In all my years in business I can recall very few people I have wanted to fire for making mistakes.
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I love being a part of country music. I love going out and... doing things for the first time for country music. I always enjoy that.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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Recruiting is the hardest part of any business, but in charity, it is 10 times harder.
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All of the characters in my films, they share one commonality. It doesn't matter whether they are good or bad, it doesn't matter whether they are smart or stupid, these characters all take responsibility for their own behavior. I'm much the same.
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Honestly, I find the analysis of dreams is one of the dullest things. I say this as a therapist kid. I find them deeply uninteresting, as a window to the soul.
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Relationships ending are painful, and you can choose to carry that, or you can choose to reframe it.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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London audiences have this reputation for being a bit too cool for school.
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As a little kid, I climbed a lot of trees because I always loved the bird's-eye view.
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If wanted to play a sport, I played a sport. If I wanted to do things that many girls born in 1950 didn't do, I did it.
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I love working with women.
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Oil is ancient wealth in the ground.
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You all look like happy campers to me. Happy campers you are, happy campers you have been, and, as far as I am concerned, happy campers you will always be.
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People sometimes wear shirts that are really boxy, and you can see them over the top of their trousers, which doesn't look right to me.
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'SNL' is the first real job I've held for more than a month and a half.
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Romania is still very much underutilizing its natural and human potential.
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It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.
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Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
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To read a novel requires a certain amount of concentration, focus, devotion to the reading. If you read a novel in more than two weeks, you don't read the novel, really.
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Ask me that again next month, when you're all in Dhaka and I'm in Rome, watching Chelsea playing Lazio!
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Pride is the first step in people unraveling and companies unraveling and relationships unraveling.
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Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine.
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People look at things differently. Imagine going to a village in Southern Sudan and try to explain to someone there the concept of life insurance or retirement. Go to Vietnam and say retirement. Retirement in another country is your body is too racked with pain and your hands are too arthritic from the life in the rice patty fields, so you can't work anymore. So you move in with your son and his new wife takes care of you because that's how families work there.
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In all my years in business I can recall very few people I have wanted to fire for making mistakes.
