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

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.

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.

The song in my heart makes me glad.

Her date was pleasant enough, but she knew that if her life was a movie this guy would be buried in the credits as something like "Second Tall Man".

To his surprise he...discovered that it was possible to be good at what you had little interest in, just as it had been possible to be bad at something…that you cared about a great deal.

It's purely and simply the unfair media.They want the story to stay alive as long as possible.

There were so few black men who were successful and who successfully conveyed black male fear - how America can make you feel crazy, and how America can create interesting levels of contradiction.

Here on earth, God's work must surely be our own.

My guiding principle is that prosperity can be shared. We can create wealth together. The global economy is not a zero-sum game.

I tell everybody, I get so much because I give so much. I give freely, I give all my time, give all my money, give all of my soul. I try to motivate people. I try to inspire them.

She's no flibberti-gibberti mamzell, but a whir-stir-get-lost-sir bundla dynamite!

Our colleges ought to have lit up in us a lasting relish for a better kind of man, a loss of appetite for mediocrities.