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“Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.”

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Author:Erich Fromm
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“Companies, as they grow to become multi-billion-dollar entities, somehow lose their vision. They insert lots of layers of middle management between the people running the company and the people doing the work. They no longer have an inherent feel or a passion about the products. The creative people, who are the ones who care passionately, have to persuade five layers of management to do what they know is the right thing to do.”

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Author:Steve Jobs
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“Now, I don't mean to say that being wrong is the same thing as being creative. What we do know is, if you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original. If you're not prepared to be wrong. And by the time they get to be adults, most kids have lost that capacity. They have become frightened of being wrong. And we run our companies like this, by the way, we stigmatize mistakes. And we're now running national education systems where mistakes are the worst thing you can make.”

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Author:Ken Robinson
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“To put it another way, I believe that purpose and principle, clearly understood and articulated, and commonly shared, are the genetic code of any healthy organization. To the degree that you hold purpose and principles in common among you, you can dispense with command and control. People will know how to behave in accordance with them, and they'll do it in thousands of unimaginable, creative ways. The organization will become a vital, living set of beliefs.”

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Author:Dee Hock
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“...one of the most inventive forms of creative capitalism involves someone we all know very well. A few years ago, I was sitting in a bar here in Davos with Bono. Late at night, after a few drinks, he was on fire, talking about how we could get a percentage of each purchase from civic-minded companies to help change the world. He kept calling people, waking them up, and handing me the phone to show me the interest.”

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Author:Bill Gates
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“"Why is the creative entrepreneur the riskiest type to be?" I asked. "Because being creative means you are often a pioneer. It is easy to copy a successful and proven product. It is also less risky. If you learn to innovate, create, or invent your way to success, you are an entrepreneur creating new value rather than an entrepreneur who wins by copying."”

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Author:Robert Kiyosaki
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“In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create.”

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Book:Confessions of an advertising man
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“Everything you can imagine is real.”

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Author:Pablo Picasso
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“Nobody talks of entrepreneurship as survival, but that's exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking.”

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Author:Anita Roddick
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“A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.”

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Book:Losing my virginity: how I've survived, had fun, and made a fortune doing business my way
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“It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.”

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Book:Teaching the gifted, challenging the average
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“The ultimate freedom for creative groups is the freedom to experiment with new ideas. Some skeptics insist that innovation is expensive. In the long run, innovation is cheap. Mediocrity is expensive—and autonomy can be the antidote.” TOM KELLEY General Manager, IDEO”

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Book:Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
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“When each of these three elements of vision-concern for excellence, for people and for the wider environment-are present, business is transformed from a tool for making profits into a creative, humane experiment for improving life.”

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Book:Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning
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