Richard Florida famous quotes

06-12-2025

I call the age we are entering the creative age because the key factor propelling us forward is the rise of creativity as the primary mover of our economy.
-- Richard Florida

#Creativity #Keys #Creative
People don't need to be managed, they need to be unleashed.
-- Richard Florida

#People #Coaching #Needs
Human creativity is the ultimate economic resource.
-- Richard Florida

#Creativity #Economic #Resources
New Jersey boasts the highest percentage of passport holders (68%); Delaware (67%), Alaska (65%), Massachusetts (63%), New York (62%), and California (60%) are close behind. At the opposite end of the spectrum, less than one in five residents of Mississippi are passport holders, and just one in four residents of West Virginia, Kentucky, Alabama, and Arkansas.
-- Richard Florida

#New York #Kentucky #Virginia
Denser cities are smarter and more productive
-- Richard Florida

#Cities #Productive
Over time, this growing tendency of like marrying like will only reinforce clustering and geographic sorting along class lines, giving the emerging map of social, economic, and cultural segregation even greater permanence.
-- Richard Florida

#Class #Giving #Maps
Builders need to take their preeminent position back from the traders for the economy of the future to flourish.
-- Richard Florida

#Needs #Economy #Traders
Snoop is a tour de force! Itâ€™s one of the smartest and most original books Iâ€™ve come across in a long time. I devoured it and then rushed over to clean up my desk and change my iPod playlist.
-- Richard Florida

#Book #Ipods #Long
Ideas are the currency of the new economy.
-- Richard Florida

#Ideas #Economy #Currency
Access to talented and creative people is to modern business what access to coal and iron ore was to steel-making.
-- Richard Florida

#Creativity #Iron #People
Places that succeed in attracting and retaining creative class people prosper; those that fail don't.
-- Richard Florida

#Class #People #Creative
Beneath the surface, unnoticed by many, an even deeper force was at workâ€”the rise of creativity as a fundamental economic driver, and the rise of a new social class, the Creative Class.
-- Richard Florida

#Creativity #Class #Creative
The creative individual is no longer viewed as an iconoclast. Heâ€”or sheâ€”is the new mainstream.
-- Richard Florida

#Creative #Individual #Mainstream
Too much of what led up to the crisis in the old bubble daysâ€”the conspicuous consumption, the latter-day Gatsbyismâ€”was fueled by a need to fill a huge emotional and psychological void left by the absence of meaningful work. When people cease to find meaning in work, when work is boring, alienating, and dehumanizing, the only option becomes the urge to consumeâ€”to buy happiness off the shelf, a phenomenon we now know cannot suffice in the long term.
-- Richard Florida

#Meaningful #Emotional #Long

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