Akio Morita Quotes

Once you have a staff of prepared, intelligent, and energetic people, the next step is to motivate them to be creative.

There is no such thing as creative and non-creative people, only people who use their creativity and people who don't.

Everyone has huge creative capacities. The challenge is to develop them. A culture of creativity has to involve everybody, not just a select few.

Every single human being is creative and maximizing that creativity is critical to happiness and economic growth. Economic growth is driven by creativity, so if we want to increase it, we have to tap into the creativity of everyone. That's what makes me optimistic. For the first time in human history, the basic logic of our economy dictates that further economic development requires the further development and use of human creative capabilities. The great challenge of our time is to find ways to tap into every human's creativity.

I’m not very creative” doesn’t work. There’s no such thing as creative people and non-creative people. There are only people who use their creativity and people who don’t. Unused creativity doesn’t just disappear. It lives within us until it’s expressed, neglected to death, or suffocated by resentment and fear.

Telling people how to be creative is easy - being creative is difficult.

Helping people to connect with their personal creative capacities is the surest way to release the best they have to offer.

I don't know where creativity comes from, but I think everybody has the ability to be creative. I think what's important about creativity starts when you're very young and how we're allowed to experience our imagination. The people who bring us up and teach us are fundamental in either encouraging creativity or discourging creativity. My imagination was always encouraged.

Very few people are accepted as creative: A few painters, a few poets - one in a million. This is foolish! Every human being is a born creator. Watch children and you will see: all children are creative. By and by, we destroy their creativity.

We should invest in people not ideas. A good idea is often destroyed by bad people and good people can always make a bad idea better.

Maya Angelou observed you cant use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. Sadly,too often creativity is smothered rather than nurtured. There has to be climate in which new ways of thinking,perceiving, questioning are encouraged.

I've discovered that the more freedom I have to be creative, the more creative I become.

Innovation has nothing to do with how many R & D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R & D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.

Everyone is creative, but we are only as creative as we allow ourselves to be.

I just want to be as creative as I possibly can.

Stay loyal to your creativity because it's a gift.

Are we forming children who are only capable of learning what is already known? Or should we try to develop creative and innovative minds, capable of discovery from the preschool age on, throughout life?

The three things that motivate creative people - autonomy, mastery, purpose!

With spiritual growth comes new creative potential, leading to the realization that you are pure potential, able to fill any creative impulse.

Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people's lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure.

The more we know about how we lost our spontaneous wonder and creativity, the more we can find ways to get them back.

I believe each person is more creative than he or she has ever imagined.

I just really enjoy the process of working with other talented, creative people. There's great power in bringing diverse points of view together. It can be incredibly stimulating.

Didn't I seize the fire of ideas and make them leap, tear, fly, sing