Ideas are the currency of the new economy.

- Richard Florida

Human creativity is the ultimate economic resource.

- Richard Florida

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

People don't need to be managed, they need to be unleashed.

- 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

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

- 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

Denser cities are smarter and more productive

- Richard Florida

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

- Richard Florida