Quotes by Thomas Friedman

About Thomas Friedman:

Thomas Loren Friedman is an American journalist, columnist and author. He has won the Pulitzer Prize three times and currently writes a weekly column for The New York Times. He has written extensively on foreign affairs, global trade, the Middle East, globalization, and environmental issues.
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Google attracts so much talent, it can afford to look beyond traditional metrics, like G.P.A. For most young people, though, going to college and doing well is still the best way to master the tools needed for many careers.

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I can see a day soon where you'll create your own college degree by taking the best online courses from the best professors from around the world - some computing from Stanford, some entrepreneurship from Wharton, some ethics from Brandeis, some lite...

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I love America. I think it's the best country in the world. But I also think we're not tending to our sauce.

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There is no substitute for face-to-face reporting and research.

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The historical debate is over. The answer is free-market capitalism.

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Supply chains cannot tolerate even 24 hours of disruption. So if you lose your place in the supply chain because of wild behavior you could lose a lot. It would be like pouring cement down one of your oil wells.

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McDonald's cannot flourish without McDonnell Douglas, the designer of the F-15.

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Basically all the world's computer parts come from the same supply chain that runs from Korea, down through coastal China, over to Taiwan, and down to Malaysia.

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There's a difference between being able to make long distance phone calls cheaper on the Internet and walking around Riyadh with a PDA where you can have all of Google in your pocket. It's a difference in degree that's so enormous it becomes a differ...

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Al Qaeda is nothing more than a mutant supply chain. They're playing off the same platform as Wal-Mart and Dell. They're just not restrained by it. What is al Qaeda? It's an open source religious political movement that works off the global supply ch...

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In Globalization 1.0, which began around 1492, the world went from size large to size medium. In Globalization 2.0, the era that introduced us to multinational companies, it went from size medium to size small. And then around 2000 came Globalization...

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I'm a capitalist. I believe in capitalism. But capitalism only works if you have safety nets to deal with people who are naturally left behind and brutalized by it.

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Do you know what my favorite renewable fuel is? An ecosystem for innovation.

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Yes, the world is now flat for publishing as well.

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I was in Bangalore, India, the Silicon Valley of India, when I realized that the world was flat.

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I have a daughter who is a sophomore in college and another who is in the 11th grade of high school.

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When I wrote 'The World Is Flat,' I said the world is flat. Yeah, we're all connected. Facebook didn't exist; Twitter was a sound; the cloud was in the sky; 4G was a parking place; LinkedIn was a prison; applications were what you sent to college; an...

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If you don't visit the bad neighborhoods, the bad neighborhoods are going to visit you.

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You win the presidency by connecting with the American people's gut insecurities and aspirations. You win with a concept.

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A golf course should aspire to generate as much energy as it consumes - golf should be leading the way toward energy net zero.

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Author Bio

  • NameThomas Friedman
  • DescriptionAmerican journalist and author
  • BornJuly 20, 1953
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionColumnist; Journalist; Screenwriter; Writer
  • AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship; George Polk Award; National Book Award