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We need to become energy independent or at least aspire to that.
— Thomas Friedman
God always forgives. Man often forgives. Nature never forgives. -
— Thomas L. Friedman
Inspiring conduct has so much more of an impact than coercing it.
— Thomas Friedman
With so many generous friends and family members from so many places for so many years, how could I not still be an optimist? Thomas
— Thomas L. Friedman
A vision without resources is an hallucination.
— Thomas Friedman
Being one of my sources is exhausting. It's not one interview and you're done. I keep going back until I feel like I understand everything.
— Thomas Friedman
I love America. I think it's the best country in the world. But I also think we're not tending to our sauce.
— Thomas Friedman
Remember, in China when you are one in a million, there are 1,300 other people just like you.
— Thomas Friedman
If you don't visit a bad neighborhood, it might visit you.
— Thomas Friedman
In the future, how we educate our children may prove to be more important than how much we educate them.
— Thomas Friedman
How youMore people will learn about IBM from Wikipedia in the coming years than from IBM itself.
— Thomas L. Friedman
A golf course should aspire to generate as much energy as it consumes - golf should be leading the way toward energy net zero.
— Thomas Friedman
Geopolitics is all about leverage. We cannot make ourselves safer abroad unless we change our behavior at home.
— Thomas Friedman
In China today, Bill Gates is Britney Spears. In America today, Britney Spears is Britney Spears-and that is our problem.
— Thomas L. Friedman
Culture is nested in context, not genes.
— Thomas L. Friedman
Hope and optimism aren't just attitudes, they are life strategies.
— Thomas Friedman
Every sport needs its temple, its cathedral.
— Thomas Friedman
Almost all the students who make it to Caltech, one of the best scientific universities in the world, come from public schools. So it can be done.— Thomas L. Friedman
It is hard to partner with someone when you become so radioactive no one wants to stand next to you.
— Thomas Friedman
Men grant and withdraw their love according to their whims, but fear is a hand that rests on their shoulders in a way they can never shake.
— Thomas L. Friedman
Guantanamo Bay is the anti-Statue of Liberty.
— Thomas Friedman
Big breakthroughs happen when what is suddenly possible meets what is desperately needed
— Thomas L. Friedman
Optimists are usually wrong. But all the great change in history, positive change, was done by optimists.
— Thomas Friedman
Desktop freelancers and innovative startups all over the world
— Thomas Friedman
On any given day, according to UPS, 2 percent of the world's GDP can be found in UPS delivery trucks or package cars.
— Thomas L. Friedman
Saudi hijackers first came into contact with al-Qaeda and went through Terrorism 101 when they signed up for the jihad in Afghanistan.
— Thomas Friedman
I'm from Minnesota. I'm optimistic. I mean, that's just who I am.
— Thomas Friedman
Iraq may still have a decent outcome ... but even if it becomes Switzerland, we overpaid for it.
— Thomas Friedman
What is al Qaeda? It's an open source religious political movement that works off the global supply chain.
— Thomas Friedman
No low-trust society will ever produce sustained innovation.
— Thomas L. Friedman
I firmly believe that the next great breakthrough in bioscience could come from a 15-year-old who downloads the human genome in Egypt.
— Thomas Friedman
The Golden Straitjacket is the defining political-economic garment of globalization. [ ... ] The tighter you wear it, the more gold it produces.
— Thomas Friedman
Rock stars get room keys, I get business cards. Wherever I go I meet innovators of wind power equipment, solar energy operators.
— Thomas Friedman
What every employer is looking for is not someone who can do the job, but someone who can reinvent the job.
— Thomas Friedman
never, ever say to someone in need: "Call me if you need help." If you want to help someone, just do it. Our
— Thomas L. Friedman
The first rule of holes is when you're in one, stop digging. When you're in three, bring a lot of shovels.
— Thomas Friedman
The hidden hand of the market will never work without a hidden fist.
— Thomas Friedman
If you don't visit the bad neighborhoods, the bad neighborhoods are going to visit you.
— Thomas Friedman
The principal factor promoting historically significant social change is contact with strangers possessing new and unfamiliar skills.
— Thomas L. Friedman
If you don't have an ethic of conservation, you basically have a license to drive a Hummer through the Amazon.
— Thomas Friedman
The only engine big enough to impact Mother Nature is Father Greed.
— Thomas Friedman
Nobody works harder at learning than a curious kid.
— Thomas L. Friedman
It generated horrific noises that sound like a TRex trapped in a tar pit screeching its dying screams.
— Thomas L. Friedman
Capitalism and political systems - like companies - must constantly evolve to stay vital.
— Thomas Friedman
I was in Bangalore, India, the Silicon Valley of India, when I realized that the world was flat.
— Thomas Friedman
Tom Friedman says China is so awesome they make kosher pigs.
— Jonah Goldberg
John Kennedy led us on a journey to discover the moon. Obama needs to lead us on a journey to rediscover, rebuild and reinvent our own backyard.
— Thomas Friedman
No, most of our political elite has not realized that the world is flat.
— Thomas Friedman
Our kids are going to be so angry with us one day. We've charged their future on our Visa cards.
— Thomas Friedman
There's nothing like living a little close to the edge that gets you motivated to ensure that you get the credentials you need to succeed.
— Thomas Friedman
In the hyperconnected world, there is only "good" "better" and "best,
— Thomas L. Friedman
Entrepreneurs don't write a 100-page business plan and execute it one time; they're always experimenting and adapting based on what they learn.
— Thomas Friedman
No policy is sustainable without a public that broadly understands why it's necessary and sees the world the way you do ...
— Thomas L. Friedman
Yes, the world is now flat for publishing as well.
— Thomas Friedman
When it comes to dealing with the world's climate and energy challenges, I have a simple rule: change America, change the world.
— Thomas Friedman
We have grown addicted to our high salaries, and now we are really going to have to earn them, the CEO said.
— Thomas L. Friedman
Pessimists are usually right and optimists are usually wrong but all the great changes have been accomplished by optimists.
— Thomas L. Friedman
I've always enjoyed the communal side of Jewish life.
— Thomas Friedman
There is no substitute for face-to-face reporting and research.
— Thomas Friedman
You win the presidency by connecting with the American people's gut insecurities and aspirations. You win with a concept.
— Thomas Friedman
We have to fight the terrorists as if there were no rules and preserve our open society as if there were no terrorists.
— Thomas Friedman
I said that more people in more places can now compete, connect and collaborate with equal power and equal tools than ever before.
— Thomas Friedman
In other words, he explained, unless we bear witness to God's presence by our own good deeds, He is not present.
— Thomas L. Friedman
Development is a voluntary process. You need a positive decision to make the right steps, but it starts with introspection.
— Thomas L. Friedman
Every golf course should have its carbon rating on the scorecard, alongside its Course Rating, Slope, par and yardage.
— Thomas Friedman
When you lose your job, the unemployment rate isn't four percent, it's 100 percent.
— Thomas Friedman
My mom enlisted in the U.S. Navy in World War II, and my parents actually bought our home thanks to the loan she got through the GI Bill.
— Thomas Friedman
I have a daughter who is a sophomore in college and another who is in the 11th grade of high school.
— Thomas Friedman
LinkedIn was barely known and most people thought it was a prison,
— Thomas L. Friedman
Change your leaders, not your light bulbs.
— Thomas Friedman
The fall of the Berlin Wall on 11/9/89 unleashed forces that ultimately liberated all the captive peoples of the Soviet Empire
— Thomas L. Friedman
Tap into people's dignity and they will do anything for you. Ignore it, and they won't lift a finger.
— Thomas Friedman
Most lost jobs are outsourced to the past.
— Thomas L. Friedman
People will change their habits quickly IF they have a strong reason for doing so.
— Thomas L. Friedman
Tencent, and Alibaba, the flow of crowdfunding through Kickstarter, Indiegogo, and GoFundMe,
— Thomas L. Friedman
The saying in China is If you're one in a million, there's still 1,300 people just like you.
— Thomas L. Friedman
We say that necessity is the mother of invention, and no country has more of a necessity to develop clean power than China.
— Thomas Friedman
We have to be the best global citizens we can be.
— Thomas Friedman
It is always dangerous to declare a turning point in history. We always tend to feel that, when we are alive, something really major is happening.
— Thomas L. Friedman
I attended public school with the same group of kids from K through 12.
— Thomas Friedman
No two countries that both had McDonald's had fought a war against each other since each got its McDonald's
— Thomas L. Friedman
We've given Iraq six months and I don't think things are really working out, so we should probably bring our troops home.
— Thomas Friedman
French voters are trying to preserve a 35-hour work week in a world where Indian engineers are ready to work a 35-hour day. Good luck.
— Thomas L. Friedman
Presidents grow up in the White House. The times shape the man.
— Thomas Friedman
Rabbi Marx pointed out to me that there is a verse in Isaiah that says, "You are my witness. I am the Lord,
— Thomas L. Friedman
The historical debate is over. The answer is free-market capitalism.
— Thomas Friedman