Akio Morita Quotes

Not being a genius, I believe in collaboration, and my background as a problem solver means I've never been afraid to work with people cleverer than myself.

I love working with other people and bouncing ideas off them.

It all starts with a great idea and teamwork.

Collaboration is important not just because it's a better way to learn. The spirit of collaboration is penetrating every institution and all of our lives. So learning to collaborate is part of equipping yourself for effectiveness, problem solving, innovation and life-long learning in an ever-changing networked economy.

I just like working with smart people.

Collaboration is much like a birth. The song that springs forth resembles each one of us to a degree, but it's the kind of thing that would never be born from just one of us sitting down with a guitar.

Innovation is all about people. Innovation thrives when the population is diverse, accepting and willing to cooperate.

Creative collaboration is awesome.

I come from a background where I like collaboration and improv. I think that it is important.

Synergy is what happens when one plus one equals ten or a hundred or even a thousand! It's the profound result when two or more respectful human beings determine to go beyond their preconceived ideas to meet a great challenge.

I'm so motivated to collaborate with people and help them realize the kind of collective vision.

I love collaborating.

A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering.

Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself.

One of the things that I think makes me successful is the way in which I collaborate with others. In my opinion, nothing great is ever the product of one mind. It's always a consequence of some sort of self-critical collaboration.

People out here build whole worlds out of nothing, through cooperating.

For me, it's not about being the best designer. I'm interested in being the best partner. The best collaborator.

When you need to innovate, you need collaboration.

Collaboration and augmentation are the foundational principles of innovation.

I am always open to when someone says, 'Let's do it this way.'

But sport is about character. It is about understanding how a team works, about pushing the team. I also wanted to do it because of where I am from as a human being. That's what London people want: thinking outside the box, new ideas.

If there is anything I wanted to learn in Europe, it was how I could be more of a team player.

It's one of those things I have been able to do - play well with my teammates and getting others involved.

We share common values as San Franciscans: we help each other; we welcome newcomers; we innovate and learn; we focus on facts; we work together; and we find creative solutions.

The people who built Silicon Valley were engineers. They learned business, they learned a lot of different things, but they had a real belief that humans, if they worked hard with other creative, smart people, could solve most of humankind's problems. I believe that very much.