Richard Florida Inspirational Quotes (7)

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

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

Human creativity is the ultimate economic resource.

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

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 new social class, the Creative Class.

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.

Snoop is a tour de force! It’s one of the smartest and most original books I’ve come across in a long time. I devoured it and then rushed over to clean up my desk and change my iPod playlist.