Ideas are the currency of the new 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.

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.

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.

Don’t ever let Them tell youyou aretoo broken to bloom

It was the freedom to experiment that made this experiment called Freedom possible.

I read your diary. I KNOW.

In reality, all those guys are gone, so you can't say it's revenge. It's a completely new team.

When you're through with your cat, you can't throw it in the trash.

I'd stand in line for Confession with old people and little kids, and as the line moved up and it was getting closer to my turn, I knew that when I got into the box I would lie! Again!

In many ways we are all sons and daughters of ancient Greece.

If a tree falls on your head in a forest and no one hears it, it still hurts.

I love standing under a steaming shower when I'm tired in the morning. I don't really get a chance for baths.

I also have a big love of classical music played on piano because this is the environment I grew up in my brother being one of the great masters in this world.