Every single human being is creative and maximizing that creativity is critical to happiness and economic growth. Economic growth is driven by creati…

- Richard Florida

Ideas are the currency of the new economy.

- Richard Florida

Economies and societies invariably remake themselves in the wake of a crisis. It's a necessary component of rebound and recovery. Outmoded industries…

- Richard Florida

Beneath the surface, unnoticed by many, an even deeper force was at work—the rise of creativity as a fundamental economic driver, and the rise of a n…

- Richard Florida

We have to acknowledge that we can't look to manufacturing or natural resources to drive growth like we have in the past. Human capital, talent, and …

- Richard Florida

Places that succeed in attracting and retaining creative class people prosper; those that fail don't.

- Richard Florida

Access to talented and creative people is to modern business what access to coal and iron ore was to steel-making.

- Richard Florida

We are the only major developed nation that isn't investing meaningfully in high-speed rail, and I believe we're making a mistake. Transportation sys…

- Richard Florida

The creative individual is no longer viewed as an iconoclast. He—or she—is the new mainstream.

- Richard Florida