Richard Florida Quotes

5 Sourced Quotes

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

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.

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

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

Richard Florida

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

Richard Florida

Richard Florida

Born: November 26, 1957 (age 66)

Bio: Richard L. Florida is an American urban studies theorist. Florida's focus is on social and economic theory. He is currently a professor and head of the Martin Prosperity Institute at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto.

Known for:

The Rise of the Creative Class (2002)
Who's Your City? (2008)
Cities and the Creative Class (2004)
The Great Reset (2010)

Richard Florida on Wikipedia

Suggest an edit or a new quote

American Academic Quotes

Academic Quotes

20th-century Academic Quotes