Akio Morita Quotes

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

It's okay to make mistakes, as long as you don't make them again.

Risks, I like to say, always pay off. You learn what to do, or what not to do.

Don't be afraid to fail. Experience is just mistakes you don't make anymore.

A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.

Sports teaches you there is always a second innings in life. If you fail today, there's a second innings maybe two days later. Maybe there's another opportunity coming up three or six months later. If you look at mistake as learnings and commit never to make a same mistake again, then you actually get better with every mistake that you make.

It's important to celebrate your failures as much as your successes. If you celebrate your failures really well, and if you get to the motto and say, 'Wow, I failed, I tried, I was wrong, I learned something,' then you realize you have no fear, and when your fear goes away, you can move the world.

You shouldn't be afraid of failure - when something fails, you think, 'What did I learn from that experience? I can do better next time.' Then kill that project and move on to the next. Don't get disappointed.

To a certain extent, I enjoy failure. It's part of the game. There's always room to grow; there's room to improve.

If I make a mistake I try to use it as a lesson and try to improve on it.

One of these days, I'm going to stop learning through my errors.

People are afraid of trying something new, of failing even before they start. My point is, what is the worst that can happen? You will fail and friends who warned you will say 'I told you so!' So you made a mistake - and will hopefully make many more. But hey! The real tragedy is not the mistake you make, but not learning from it.

You try something, it doesn't work, and maybe people even criticize you. In a fixed mindset, you say, 'I tried this, it's over.' In a growth mindset, you look for what you've learned.

If you fail doing one thing, then learn the lesson and move on and find something else.

Successes teach you nothing. Failures teach you everything. Making mistakes is the most important thing you can do.

If a man didn't make mistakes he'd own the world in a month.But if he didn't profit by his mistakes he wouldn't own a blessed thing.

People learn from failure or from lack of success.

Mistakes don't scare me or bother me. If I feel like I made the same mistake twice, then I feel like I've really screwed up. But if I make one mistake and learn from it, hey, to me in the game of life it's just as important to know what doesn't work as what does. So I think mistakes are a good thing.

Do not be afraid of mistakes, provided you do not make the same one twice.

I don't look at failure as death, I don't look at failure as finality. I just look at it and pick myself up and say 'we shouldn't have done that' and move on.

A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.

I've made every mistake - but mistakes are how you learn.

You know, be able to do something great in your life, you're gonna have to realize your failures. You're gonna have to embrace them and figure out how to overcome it.

I didn't like the idea of being foolish, but I learned pretty soon that it was essential to fail and be foolish.

Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.