Top 1200 Creative Business Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

You can be as creative as you want to and build all these cool projects, but ultimately, if they're not successful and you don't have the business structure in place, everything will flop.

Do you think of yourself as a creative personality? If you do, you are both fortunate and correct, in fact the beautiful truth is that everyone is creative and we all have the ability to develop our creative potential. It is wise to remember that the person who follows the crowd will get no further than the crowd. The person who walks the creative path is likely to find they are in places no one has ever been before.

I think sometimes there are negative connotations for those who have a business mind as well as a creative side.

Suddenly creativity is the popular goal. Ironically, a quality dissonant with our conventional education process is greatly in demand in adults - and those who survive the system without losing their creative integrity are richly rewarded. The magic word in a book's title almost ensures sales: Creative Stitchery, Creative Cookery, Creative Gardening. ... Perhaps we are trying to develop something that was innately ours.

Learn to use your brain power. Critical thinking is the key to creative problem solving in business.

Wherever you go in the galaxy, you can find a food business, a house-building business, a war business, a peace business, a governing business, and so forth. And, of course, a God business, which is called 'religion,' and which is a particularly reprehensible line of endeavor.

Making surf films for a living isn't my business anymore, so it's really more of a way to get creative and have a lot of fun with it.

There needs to be a bigger focus on creative innovation versus business models and cash flow.

We're in the doing business, or acting business and creating business. We're not in the results business, so we don't have any control over what the result is.

Advertising is a business within a business and the man who neglects it will soon find himself with a business without a business.

The best thing that happened from that situation when I failed was the fact that I failed and I failed because I was trying to do things that I don't like to do. I like to make movies and I like the creative process. I don't really care about the business end of it. It's not my thing. So I was all of sudden totally immersed in the business end of it and dealing with human resources, lawyers, and accountants, and so on. It wasn't for me.

I've never been good in the financial and business arenas. I handle the creative side of things.

I think it would be a good thing in the creative community if there was less embarrassment of this word 'commercial' because that's how you make a business.

The best thing about my job is that I work with the best creative people in the business in their fields.

Everyone is creative, but me and my colleagues are using a different definition of creativity than is implied when people say they are not creative. We believe that people are being creative if they are bringing out their highest inner resources to improve their lives and those around them. Those who are living from their core, and doing what they are destined to do, are being creative, no matter how mundane their work or profession might seem.

I decided to do whatever I could to make sure the business side of music didn't intrude on the creative part.

A creative moment is part of a longer creative process which, in turn, is part of a creative life.

In a family business, you grow up with close contact to the business, whatever it is, and the beer business is certainly a very social type of business.

When you have a creative business and ideas generated from people working together, I think you can work happier together.

Phases of the creative process: Preparation-gathering impressions Incubation-letting go of certainties Immersion/Illumination-creative intervention/risk Revision-conscious structuring and editing of creative material.

It's very important to stay creative and not simply to wait around for people to want you. It's the hardest thing about the business.

Generally I'm wide open to people; I love helping them in any way I possibly can. But for me to invest, a business has to have a lot of creative scale; it has to be unique.

I wouldn't be who I am without my husband, who handled the business end of Donna Karan so I could be creative.

You have to be very fast-thinking, creative, and mobile. It is key to making a business move.

When we separate the word business into its component letters, B-U-S-I-N-E-S-S, we find that U and I are both in it. In fact, if U and I were not in business, it would not be business. Furthermore, we discover that U comes before I in business and the I is silent-it is to be seen, not heard. Also, the U in business has the sound of I, which indicates it is an amalgamation of the interests of U and I. When they are properly amalgamated, business becomes harmonious, profitable, and pleasant.

Whatever creative success I gained was due to my belief that creative power can be stepped up by effort, and that there are ways in which we can guide our creative thinking.

In the media business and as a creative executive, if you don't take risks, you're dead in the water. Calculated risk-taking is essential for success.

It's the lack of ambition that cripples most people, and makes them so pedestrian in the advertising/creative business

I've now returned to the business again because I finally realised that I really enjoy the creative process.

A family business in cinema is not necessarily creative. It is generally about prolonging your family fortune.

People equate job titles to levels of creativity. We think that musicians are creative while accountants are not. Job title has nothing to do with human creativity. In fact, we all have enormous creative potential. Even those that often state with authority that "I'm not creative." With a systematic approach to building creative capacity, we all have the opportunity to create and leave a mark on the world.

People talk about songwriting or comedy as creative expression, but life is creative expression. Table-making, even nursing, is extraordinarily creative.

In the media business and as a creative executive, if you don't take risks, you're dead in the water. Calculated risk taking is essential for success. No one said it was easy.

I mean the business is just so rough man, people always think the business is easy, and the business is very rough. This is probably the worst business that you can get in, as far as, business-wise.

It's impossible for a creative artist to be either a Puritan or a Fascist, because both are a negation of the creative urge. The only things a creative artist can be opposed to are ugliness and injustice.

Should a story be readily told in a PG-13 fashion, it should be for creative, not business, reasons.

I really respect the Coen brothers as directors and as creative individuals and with the way that they handle the industry and the business side of things.

If you can shape your business life or your working life, you can just look at it as another extension - you just fulfill all your values as a human being in the work place. If you are an activist, you bring the activism of your life into your business, or if you love creative art, you can bring that in.

The decision to divorce myself from the business side unexpectedly blew up in my face. The creative freedom I thought I was getting turned out to be anything but.

In our business, except in media buying, there are few economies of scale. Client perception of creative agencies is that the bigger they are, the worse they are.

Business is about more than just money. It's about being creative and innovative.

There's an eternal war between a creative person and the business person.

I respect Drake not only as a creative person but as a business mind as well. I think Drake's important.

I'm not very good at business. I'm more of a creative, fun-loving hippie type.

I've always thought of myself as a businesswoman. I have the creative side, but I also have this business sense.

I find, in merchandising and design and creative, a business school degree isn't particularly helpful.

I never divide photographers into creative and uncreative, I just call them photographers. Who is creative? How do you know who is creative or not?

Creativity is not a solitary movement. That is its power. Whatever is touched by it, whoever hears it, sees it, senses it, knows it, it's fed. That is why beholding someone else's creative word, images, idea, fills us up, and inspires us to our own creative work. A single creative act has the potential to feed a continent. One creative act can cause a torrent to break through stone.

I don't like to hear anybody in show business complain, because I just find it to be such a grateful business. Because there are so many wonderful, creative souls out there and there are so few jobs. And, so, I just find myself thinking to myself "wow, if I could get into a show of any kind and have it last for a while" - that's when I find myself really happy.

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

I'm not in the speech making business. I'm not in the seminar business. I'm not in the writing book business. I'm in the changing lives business.

I don't really count myself as a very sophisticated businessperson. I'm a creative artist. All I know from business I've picked up along the way.

The promise of business is to increase the general well-being of humankind through service, a creative invention and ethical philosophy.

Chess, like any creative activity, can exist only through the combined efforts of those who have creative talent, and those who have the ability to organize their creative work

There is no business like show business, Irving Berlin once proclaimed, and thirty years ago he may have been right, but not anymore. Nowadays almost every business is like show business, including politics, which has become more like show business than show business is.

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.

In general, advertising isn't a "creative" atmosphere. It's a business atmosphere and your job is puzzle solving. My favorite aspect of the business, I guess, was presenting to clients. What I enjoyed least were the clients. Worried corporate brand managers, trying to dumb-down their ads for the stupid American population. I hated the disrespect that these people had for "consumers."

Everyone in my family is in the film business; I knew I wanted to be creative and it was important in my family to be artistic.

Girls are breaking barriers and boundaries every day in everything from sports and science to business and the creative arts.

Creative avoidance is the type of procrastination that affects home business entrepreneurs the most. It is unconsciously filling our day with trivial, unimportant work.