Richard Florida Quotes

The most important import the United States has ever had has been human talent.

Highly skilled immigrants are critical to innovation and are important contributors to economic growth in the United States.

Achieving the highest possible return on human capital must be every manager's goal.

A well-trained workforce is critical to small-business success. What I hear from business is that it's hard to find help that meets their needs.

By welcoming eager, talented workers, we expand America's potential for growth, and our competitive culture of invention and possibility.

We need foreign skills to stay competitive.

Big companies such as Google and Facebook buy startups at ridiculously high prices - not for their products, but for their people.

This battle for global talent is so important.

The ingenuity and creativity of the private sector is essential to meeting American's needs for a skilled work force.

A company's commitment to searching out potential blockbusters and then investing in marketing to convert potential to reality attracts and retains top scientists and creatives.

Kansas businesses depend on high-skilled workers to be competitive and to contribute to the local economy.

We are building a brain trust of leading app talent. These are very highly regarded developers, and SGN is blessed to have them join to help build a great company that brings innovation, creativity, and joy to our users.

Firms gain comparative advantage from how good their people are. Retaining and attracting talent is a key point of competitive advantage in the global economy. We are seeing that play out, and there are implications for Australia, too. The idea that companies now compete on who can pay their workers the lowest - that's all changing.

Intellectual capital drives financial capital and growth.

Talent is what drives technology companies.

Human capital will go where it is wanted, and it will stay where it is well treated. It cannot be driven; it can only be attracted.

The ideal country in a flat world is the one with no natural resources, because countries with no natural resources tend to dig inside themselves. They try to tap the energy, entrepreneurship, creativity, and intelligence of their own people-men and women-rather than drill an oil well.

The ultimate resource in economic development is people. It is people, not capital or raw materials that develop an 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.

Independent economists say immigration reform will grow our economy and shrink our deficits by almost $1 trillion in the next two decades. And for good reason: when people come here to fulfill their dreams - to study, invent, and contribute to our culture - they make our country a more attractive place for businesses to locate and create jobs for everyone. So let's get immigration reform done this year.

Every great man of business has got somewhere a touch of the idealist in him.

All progress comes from the creative minority.

To succeed in business you need to be original, but you also need to understand what your customers want.

Talent is what drives this world ... Doesn’t matter how many satellites you f---ing stick in the air.

The faculty of creating is never given to us all by itself. It always goes hand in hand with the gift of observation.