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.

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.

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

Human creativity is the ultimate economic resource.

Ideas are the currency of the new economy.

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.

Denser cities are smarter and more productive

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.

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

We can't understand the solutions other people arrive at until we understand the problems they are trying to solve.

Building a strong future is living at the intersection of today and tomorrow: where living in the moment and who you have chosen to become dance together as one.

Whether someone is useful only matters if you value people by their use.

It was a kind of sado-masochism. I would take the things that were painful to me and elevate them and, through the mantra of music, make them into a release.

Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.

I think the studio gave me that series on purpose, because they knew perfectly well that Robert Riskin was ill and that I needed to go to work. They gave me that series to do.

There are a lot of comic strips in Brazilian newspapers that have been around for 30, almost 40 years. They are very famous in Brazil.

Liberals were just as engaged and using the rhetoric of a sort of a battle with the Soviets and with Communism in general, with an evil empire.

The best thing about football is that the rules are so simple. Anyone can play anywhere.

Even the purest of teachers will face bitter criticism from those who feel threatened by him.