34 Quotes by Richard Florida

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.

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.

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

Denser cities are smarter and more productive.

As the economy has become more specialized and the occupational division of labor has deepened, the Creative Class has increasingly outsourced functions that were previously provided within the family to the Service Class.

It’s not that gays and diversity equal high technology. But if your culture is not such that it can accept difference, and uniqueness and oddity and eccentricity, you will not get high tech industry.