Richard Florida Quotes

Energy and imagination are the springboards to wealth creation.

Creativity and business acumen don't always go hand in hand.

Ideas are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent.

Wealth flows from energy and ideas.

In Israel, a land lacking in natural resources, we learned to appreciate our greatest national advantage: our minds. Through creativity and innovation, we transformed barren deserts into flourishing fields and pioneered new frontiers in science and technology.

I'm someone who believes that making things creates wealth.

Creativity comes from constraint.

Ideas will be the major source of new wealth.

Knowledge has become the key economic resource and the dominant-and perhaps even the only-source of competitive advantage.

Human beings have the remarkable ability to turn nothing into something. They can turn weeds into gardens and pennies into fortunes.

Creativity is a renewable resource.

The main fuel to speed the world's progress is our stock of knowledge, and the brake is our lack of imagination.

Ideas are the currency of the new economy.

Creativity is a great motivator because it makes people interested in what they are doing. Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea. Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone. Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.

You have to create something from nothing.

I have a folder in my office with about 400 ideas in it. So it will take me another 40 years to get through those.

The greatest real thrill that life offers is to create, to construct, to develop something useful. Too often we fail to recognize and pay tribute to the creative spirit. It is that spirit that creates our jobs.

When I look at the success I have, it's because of my creative-thinking skills.

Unstructured play gives kids the space they need to tinker and take risks - both vital for the budding entrepreneur.

The heart of the entrepreneur can beat freely in anyone.

I would consider myself an inventor at heart, or reinventor.

Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is the result of good work habits.

Understanding capitalism is in some ways simple. At its best, capitalism rewards creators, makers and providers: the people and firms that create valuable things for others, like imaginative technologies and good food, cars and drugs.

Nobody talks of entrepreneurship as survival, but that's exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking.

The United States is the only power in history that became great by giving and not by taking. I think the crisis was when the United States had more money than ideas. Money doesn't produce money. Ideas produce money.