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

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.

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.

Home was more about people than a place.

Write me, so it delights me in such a way to torment me.

Most of the time our stress is useless. It's because we don't see the outcome of things. God does.

The ability to portray people in still life and in motion requires the highest measure of intuition and talent.

Don't look back. Just go ahead. Give ideas away. Under every idea there's a new idea waiting to be born.

The hand that held the dagger has struck it into the back of its neighbor.

Our problem is that we are in the Word but not under the Word.

All of us would like for everybody to be the kind of person we want them to be.

My fighting spirit has often seemed out of place.

When we have a clear sense of our destination, we can be flexible in the route we take to reach it.