Akio Morita Quotes

Success in dealing with people depends on sympathetic grasp of the other person's viewpoint.

The best way to know people is to work with them.

I don't know how people act. I've never understood that.

Understanding people certainly impacts your ability to communicate with others.

In doing what I'm doing, you have to be sensitive to the fact that you're not dealing with numbers, you're dealing with people. And I will continue to be sensitive to that.

I'm just incredibly interested in people.

My mother always taught me to think about things from other people's perspectives and think about where they're coming from.

For most of your career, what you're trying to do is to step into other people's shoes.

I think one of my strengths is kind of knowing people and getting a good read and a feel for what that person's strengths might be.

One can win the attention and time and cooperation of even the most sought-after people by becoming genuinely interested in them.

I feel like I can get a good feel for people.

I understand how to read people, and nurture them and guide them, and let them be free to do what they want to do.

[The biggest lesson I've got is] Learning to have patience with people, just take it one step at a time in everything that you're doing and just invest time in the people that you're with ... have patience with them, even if they're not necessarily the easiest person to work with.

I envy people who have the capacity to sit with another human being and find them endlessly interesting, I would rather watch TV. Of course this becomes eventually known to the other person.

I find people confusing.

For me, storytelling is all about how we learn about each other. I'm so curious about people, what makes them tick, why they are who they are, and how we all relate to each other, despite the fact that we may not think that we do.

We don't live in a shared reality, we each live in a reality of our own, and causing upset is often the price of trying to reach each other. It's always easier to dismiss other people than to go through the awkward and time consuming process of understanding them. We have given 'taking offense' a social status it doesn't deserve: it's not much more than a way of avoiding difficult conversations.

My personality does well with people who are deemed difficult. I don't know why it does but I just seem to get along with them. The more difficult the better.

In order to lead people, you have to get to know them.

If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.

If you don't understand people, you don't understand business.

Your people smarts will prove ten times more valuable than all the book smarts you can't get.

I have a lot of problems understanding connections between people and how to negotiate that. It makes everything hard offstage.

It's dangerous to be people-blind.