Richard Florida quotes:

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.

Ideas are the currency of the new economy.

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.

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.

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

Builders need to take their preeminent position back from the traders for the economy of the future to flourish.

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.

Denser cities are smarter and more productive

Human creativity is the ultimate economic resource.

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

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