Diversity gives our city a competitive edge.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
While I started out with a vague understanding that diversity would be important, my own observations have led me to realize that achieving greater levels of diversity is in fact vital to our long-term success.
Diversity is America's most valuable resource. It is what makes us the most innovative nation on Earth.
Today we're dealing with metropolitan Shanghai, metropolitan New Delhi or Paris. If we're competing at that level, our diversity, that richness of people coming from so many different backgrounds, is one of our greatest advantages.
Diversity is valued, and it is prized. We learn to appreciate each other and each other's struggles. From diversity, we draw our enormous and our lasting strength.
Diversity is really a richness for mankind.
Diversity is about all of us, and about us having to figure out how to walk through this world together.
There's a pure and simple business case for diversity: Companies that are more diverse are more successful.
We are, by many measures, one of the more diverse cities in the country, growing more diverse all the time, and one of the more harmonious in terms of how we live together.
It's fascinating to see how versatile New York City is. It lends itself to being so many different places!
I think diversity is a challenge everywhere.