Corporate Creativity: Dr. YKK Quotes
Corporate Creativity is one of the little treasures Dr. YKK has
put together in his quotes series. Dr. YKK has collected
insights, observations and thoughts about corporate creativity
from respected corporate leaders around the globe that will
"unzip your mind." Sources include, for example, Walt Disney
Founder of Walt Disney, Jerry Hirshberg Founder and President of
Nissan Design International and Nolan Bushnell Founder of Atari.
"We're genetically pioneers. Everybody in Amazon.com wants to
do something completely new. I wake up every morning trying to
make sure that I can confound journalists and pundits who try to
encapsulate me in a 8-second sound bite." --Jeff Bezoz, CEO of
Amazon.com
"If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be different,
be just." --Anita Roddick, Co-Founder of The Body Shop
"The most important trait of a good leader is knowing who you
are. In our industry, very often we do not have the time to
think. You have to so all your homework, but then you have to go
with your intuition without letting your mind get in the way."
--Edward Mc Cracken, CEO of Silicon Graphics
"I wanted to blend coffee with romance, to dare to achieve what
others said was impossible, to defy the odds with innovative
ideas, and to do all this with elegance and style." --Howard
Schultz, Chairman and CEO of Starbucks
"Creativity comes with diversity." --Carlos Gutierrrez, CEO of
Kellogg's
Excerpted from Corporate Creativity: Dr. YKK
Quotes(http://www.penmarin.com/proddetail.asp?prod=YKK05&from=12)
by Dr. YKK, Ph.D. (Penmarin Books, http://www.penmarin.com).