Richard Florida Quotes

My first large-scale community development opportunity was the formation of the Mission Viejo Co. - a partnership with the O'Neill Family, who owned Rancho Mission Viejo. As the young president of the company, I had the responsibility for master planning, master building and implementing the new community's development plans.

A tin roof is one of the greatest indicators of prosperity in the developing world.

Putting in place the building blocks for the future of our economy is common sense.

Too many politicians seem to reach for 'infrastructure' as the default answer to investment, as if roads and bridges were the answer to everything. Even the IMF and the World Bank seem to mainly offer infrastructure spending as an alternative to austerity, although they are right to focus on the need for investment.

Investment in infrastructure is a long term requirement for growth and a long term factor that will make growth sustainable.

New synthetic substances - steel, concrete, glass - are actively superseding the traditional raw materials of construction.

Incentives and infrastructure should encourage development and that development needs to contain the right types of housing in the right places.

We need to strengthen basic infrastructure in border areas so that people don't migrate to other places looking for better opportunities.

I had attracted large investments into information technology and built infrastructure in Hyderabad, including India's first greenfield airport, apart from attracting the country's first private sector investments in power generation.

We believe infrastructure is key to economic growth, and we will do what we can to develop infrastructure in India.

We need to take bold action to invest in infrastructure projects to spur our economy and ensure that we are protecting good paying jobs.

Old models of development simply seek to lure business with substantial tax breaks and then hope (and pray) that economic benefits will trickle down to residents. It has not worked for our city in the past, and it will not work for the future city that we all hope want to see.

Our government has made infrastructure upgrade and the creation of smart cities major national priorities.

We want New Hampshire to be a haven for entrepreneurs and inventors - the people who are creating the products and good-paying jobs of the future.

India's sprawling subcontinent can never become a plus-size Singapore. But perhaps we can weave together an urban web that is the equivalent of a thousand Singapores.

An article in the 'Moscow Times' described Trump as the city's first grand builder since Stalin.

Future prosperity will be built on private sector growth.

'Make in India' is great, but 'Make It Happen in India' is even greater. Make It Happen in India is more than manufacturing. It's about training, about education, about societal development and automation and engineering.

Infrastructure is the backbone of economic growth. It improves access to basic services such as clean water and electricity, creates jobs and boosts business.

We need to diversify our economy, but I also think we still have a future in coal.

We want to make Uttar Pradesh the most developed state in the country.

Infrastructure development is a huge challenge for the people of Amethi.

To give him his credit, I never thought I'd say this, but Donald Trump was talking about the importance of investing in jobs and infrastructure and in the economies across the country, not just the main cities, and that's right.

Visit any of the fastest growing parts of the world and you will find investment in infrastructure.

Railway network will support efforts to diversify the economy and enhance our export potentials.