Creativity Quotes

"Some men see things as they are and ask why ... I dream of things that never were and ask why not?"

- Robert Kennedy

"It might have been the lighthouse spark / Some sailor, rowing in the dark, / Had importuned to see!"

- Emily Dickinson

"Flowers don't tell, they show."

- Stephanie Skeem

"When you find an idea that you just can’t stop thinking about, that’s probably a good one to pursue."

- Josh James

"If you just work on stuff that you like and you’re passionate about, you don’t have to have a master plan with how things will play out."

- Mark Zuckerberg

"The things we fear the most in organizations – fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances – are the primary sources of creativity."

- Margaret Wheatley

"All humans are entrepreneurs – not because they should start companies but because the will to create is encoded in human DNA."

- Reid Hoffman

"Don’t take too much advice. Most people who have a lot of advice to give – with a few exceptions – generalize whatever they did. Don’t over-analyze everything. I myself have been guilty of over-thinking problems. Just build things and find out if they work."

- Ben Silbermann

"Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking. Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; it’s about trading: buying and selling."

- Anita Roddick

"Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works."

- Steve Jobs

"If we tried to think of a good idea, we wouldn’t have been able to think of a good idea. You just have to find the solution for a problem in your own life."

- Brian Chesky

"If you know too much before the start, then you will get overwhelmed. Come up with an original idea, and don’t copy because there will be no passion. You need that otherworldly passion. Just start."

- Jeni Britton Bauer

"Passion, creativity, and resilience are the most crucial skills in business. If you’ve got those, you’re ready to embark on the journey."

- Jo Malone

"I'm always tweaking, always trying to make it better, constantly moving the levers and dials."

- Steve Ells

"It’s important to be willing to make mistakes. The worst thing that can happen is you become memorable."

- Sara Blakely

"All humans are entrepreneurs, not because they should start companies, but because the will to create is encoded in human DNA, and creation is the essence of entrepreneurship."

- Reid Hoffman

"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."

- Albert Einstein

"There’s this joy that comes from sitting down to solve a problem and standing up when it’s done and good. Building a company or managing people is never just done."

- Drew Houston

"People think innovation is just having a good idea, but a lot of it is just moving quickly and trying a lot of things."

- Mark Zuckerberg

"“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”"

- Albert Einstein

"Travelling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller."

- Ibn Battuta

"Traveling: it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller."

- Ibn Battuta

"Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller."

- Ibn Battuta

"CPAs are not just number crunchers; they are financial architects shaping economic destinies."

- Samantha Wilson

"Accounting isn’t just about profits and losses; it’s about sculpting the financial soul of a company."

- Michael Johnson

"Corporate prosperity is a tapestry, and accountants are the weavers of financial success."

- Richard Turner

"Travel does what good novelists also do to the life of every day, placing it like a picture in a frame or a gem in its setting, so that the intrinsic qualities are made more clear. Travel does this with the very stuff that everyday life is made of, giving to it the sharp contour and meaning of art."

"Travelling solo allows you to write your own story, one adventure at a time."

"Your graduation is like the first stroke of an artist’s brush on a blank canvas; the process of painting the extraordinary picture has just begun."

"As you graduate, remember that life isn’t a puzzle to solve but a masterpiece to craft."