Top 79 Creativity Business Quotes
#1. As an improvising musician, I am not in the music business, I am not in the creativity business; I am in the surrender business.
Stephen Nachmanovitch
#2. Creativity is the ability to create novel value, and innovation is how to transform ideas and achieve their business value.
Pearl Zhu
#3. The point of business was to make just enough money to keep going, not to create a monster of productivity that chained a person to the wheels of power and stifled all creativity and imagination. Business should not be profit-driven; it should be idea-driven.
James Conaway
#4. If you're creative, if you can think independently, if you can articulate passion, if you can override the fear of being wrong, then your company needs you more than it ever did. And now your company can no longer afford to pretend that isn't the case. So dust off your horn and start tooting.
Hugh MacLeod
#5. Three cardinal virtues of business: creativity, building community, practical realism.
Ted Malloch
#6. The things we fear most in organizations - fluctuations, disturbances,
imbalances - are the primary sources of creativity.
Margaret J. Wheatley
#7. Creativity needs a bit of untidiness. Make everything too neat and there is no room for experiment.
Charles Handy
#8. I can honestly say that I have never gone into any business purely to make money. If that is the sole motive then I believe you are better off not doing it. A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.
Richard Branson
#9. Creativity comes from constraint.
Biz Stone
#10. There are three creativities: creativity in technology, in product planning, and in marketing. To have any one of these without the others is self defeating in business.
Akio Morita
#11. For most people, creativity is a serious business. They forget the telling phrase 'the play of ideas' and think that they need to knuckle down and work more. Often, the reverse is true. They need to play.
Julia Cameron
#12. I came to the conclusion long ago that limits to innovation have less to do with technology or creativity than organizational agility. Inspired individuals can only do so much.
Ray Stata
#13. Social Media begins with a story - your story.
Germany Kent
#14. Once you start trying to sell creativity, you're always going to run into the problem that the people selling it aren't as creative as the people making it, and the people making it don't know how to talk business with the people trying to sell it.
Dave Pirner
#15. Entrepreneurship isn't for everyone, and not everyone is going to be an entrepreneur, but women who turn to business, turn to economics, because there are people depending on them, I think that their creativity, their resilience, their spirit, embody what's best about entrepreneurship.
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
#16. Communication, collaboration, and creativity are the keys to run IT as a better business partner.
Pearl Zhu
#17. The mindset, vision, competency, capability, culture and marketing opportunity are all great starting point for business model innovation.
Pearl Zhu
#18. Don't always be appraising yourself, wondering if you are better or worse than other writers. "I will not Reason and Compare," said Blake; "my business is to Create." Besides, since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of Time, you are incomparable.
Brenda Ueland
#19. Creativity and business acumen don't always go hand in hand.
Sophia Amoruso
#20. Every man has a specific skill, whether it is discovered or not, that more readily and naturally comes to him than it would to another, and his own should be sought and polished. He excels best in his niche - originality loses its authenticity in one's efforts to obtain originality.
Criss Jami
#21. Business is difficult. But it could be approached two ways: Seriously, or with the same way you're doing your job, with entertainment aspect, with pleasure, with fun. And we decided to try to make it as fun that we do our creativity.
Guy Laliberte
#22. His music gave no lesser joy than a vacation. Creativity in his music and its success stood out as an example to all kinds of artists, in the lectures of business speakers, engineers, and to anyone who built or constructed something in their respective profession.
Amit Kalantri
#23. Entrepreneurs bring to business ... creativity.
Wayne Rogers
#24. We are all creative, from the mother adding an extra pinch of garlic to her meal, to the entrepreneur launching a brand new product, to the business consultant who creates a more effective way for corporate departments to communicate. The call requires creativity.
Shannon Tanner
#26. If there is one characteristic that signals creativity in business, it might be follow-through.
Michael Ray
#27. CEOs believe that the most important skill needed to navigate today's complex business world is creativity.
Emma Seppala
#28. At the end of the day, photography is ninety-nine percent business, connections, and politics and one percent creativity.
Rankin
#29. The origin of innovation and entrepreneurship is a creative mindset
Michael Harris
#30. Business ideas are like those flying dragons in Avatar. First you have to find one, let it choose you, then be brave enough to ride it.
Ryan Lilly
#31. The '60s was a magical time in the music business. So much creativity and talent. I think a lot of it came from the fact that we had grown up before rock n' roll. We listened to all the great songwriters and big bands, songs with great lyrics and melodies. I think that really influenced everybody.
Frankie Valli
#32. The misuse of extrinsic rewards, so common in business, impedes creativity, stifles personal satisfaction and turns play into work.
Daniel H. Pink
#33. If everyone waited to become an expert before starting, no one would become an expert. To become an EXPERT, you must have EXPERIENCE. To get EXPERIENCE, you must EXPERIMENT! Stop waiting. Start stuff.
Richie Norton
#34. Access to talented and creative people is to modern business what access to coal and iron ore was to steel-making.
Richard Florida
#35. The number one premise of business is that it need not be boring or dull. It ought to be fun. If it's not fun, you're wasting your life.
Tom Peters
#36. Companies have to nurture [creativity and motivation]-and have to do it by building a compassionate yet performance-driven corporate culture. In the knowledge economy the traditional soft people side of our business has become the new hard side.
Gay Mitchell
#37. You can't let fear and indecision sink your creativity
they do not easily release their hold.
Richie Norton
#38. A lot of my business is about protecting creativity.
Drew Barrymore
#39. Innovation and creativity are the juiciest parts of running a business.
Barbara Corcoran
#40. I love design in general, the creativity. Whether it is golf courses, my apparel line, ads we do or our business with AriZona, design is fun.
Jack Nicklaus
#41. It's weird because music is this thing that you love doing, and it comes completely from a place of creativity, and then that transfers into having to manage a business and make decisions and figure out what is the best route to go in terms of getting your product to as many people as possible.
Macklemore
#43. Effective philanthropy requires a lot of time and creativity - the same kind of focus and skills that building a business requires.
Bill Gates
#44. There's a friend at the end of your pen which you can use to help you solve personal or business problems, get to know all the different parts of yourself, explore your creativity, heal your relationships, develop your intuition
Kathleen Adams
#45. It's ever so important to believe in what you do, trust your ability to create and show yourself worthy. Never sell yourself short.
Simon Zingerman
#46. What I have found is that, in a family business structure, sometimes what is needed is a sense of discipline rather than creativity. You have to take everyone's ideas and make it work. When you are dealing with money, there is a limitation on how creative you can be.
Ashwin Sanghi
#47. The fact that you have started a small business doesn't mean you should be thinking small. Think BIG! Start Small! Expand your territories!
Bernard Kelvin Clive
#48. Digitalization implies the full-scale changes in the way business is conducted so that it's a multi-dimensional planning and orchestration.
Pearl Zhu
#51. We will have to become 'perpetual marketers', to learn to be channel and data planners without losing our human insight or creativity; to vastly increase the level of accountability and provide more relevant experiences for customers.
John Woodward
#52. Creating the culture of burnout is opposite to creating a culture of sustainable creativity. This is something that needs to be taught in business schools. This mentality needs to be introduced as a leadership and performance-enhancing tool.
Arianna Huffington
#53. We need to move from comparative advantage to perpetual advantage ...
Max McKeown
#54. If you stick in the business of being creative, you get hurt. And creative disappointment seems so much harder to take than any other kind. But if you're not prepared to get hurt like that, life can be pretty boring. I think I'm going to keep on going.
Chuck Barris
#56. Most organisations say they want creativity, but really they do not.
Jeffrey Pfeffer
#57. The desire to do something because you find it deeply satisfying and personally challenging inspires the highest levels of creativity, whether
it's in the arts, sciences, or business.
Teresa Amabile
#58. Applying creative thinking to our clients' business strategy-this should be our industry's new core competency. And-in what is very good news for our industry-this kind of creativity, creativity that goes to the heart of business, is more in-demand than ever.
Bob Schmetterer
#59. Successful charitable fund-raising has much in common with managing a business: It requires leadership, persistence, and creativity.
David Rockefeller
#60. Women have sat indoors all these millions of years, so that by this time the very walls are permeated by their creative force, which has, indeed, so overcharged the capacity of bricks and mortar that it must needs harness itself to pens and brushes and business and politics.
Virginia Woolf
#61. The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.
Anthony Jay
#62. I like that combination between creativity and the creative process and the organization needed to make a business like this successful worldwide.
Bernard Arnault
#63. Small business people have gotten us out of nearly all modern recessions - not by waiting for others to fix things or turning to government, but rather by applying leadership, inventiveness, creativity and originality.
Oliver DeMille
#64. Creativity in all forms of life, from arts to business to domestic situations, depends on our ability to recognize and explore gaps
Itay Talgam
#65. Those who can create, will create. Those who cannot create, will compete.
Michael F. Bruyn
#66. TV by and large has become a dime-store business so far as creativity and talent are concerned. The half-hour and sixty-minute series rattle off the production lines like cans of beans, with an occasional dab of ham inside.
Hedda Hopper
#67. Creativity, imagination and talent can only get you so far -- you still need luck and money -- And that's why they call it Show Business and not Show Art
Wayne J. Keeley
#68. Give yourself permission 2 evolve. Become a philosopher; come up with your own interpretation of life and stop accepting someone else's as your truth.
Germany Kent
#69. Is creativity some obscure, esoteric art form? Not on your life. It's the most practical thing a business-man can employ.
William Bernbach
#70. I love how people in this business push themselves to know themselves, the world, and their creativity better.
Josh Lucas
#71. Any good business person applies financial discipline to everything they do. The movie business is and should be no different; I don't believe you have to sacrifice creativity to have business success. To the contrary, great art requires discipline.
Paula Wagner
#72. Constraint inspired creativity. Blank spaces are difficult to fill, but the smallest prompt can send us in fantastic new directions
Biz Stone
#73. All too often, a successful new business model becomes the business model for companies not creative enough to invent their own.
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Gary Hamel
#74. All one needs is a computer, a network connection, and a bright spark of initiative and creativity to join the economy.
Don Tapscott
#76. Unfortunately, music devolved instead of evolved. The music business got into the hands of lawyers and accountants rather than the entrepreneurial creative people, and that's when the beginning of the end started. It's all based on money instead of art and creativity.
Gary Wright
#77. If your business plan depends on suddenly being "discovered" by some big shot, your plan will probably fail. Nobody suddenly discovers anything. Things are made slowly and in pain.
Hugh MacLeod
#78. You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you're not passionate enough from the start, you'll never stick it out.
Steve Jobs
#79. Organisations with decision-making speed and imagination will thrive as nobody can claim to have a monopoly over creativity.
N. R. Narayana Murthy
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