Thomas Friedman
Thomas Friedman
Thomas Loren Friedmanis an American journalist and author...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth20 July 1953
CountryUnited States of America
education daughter mother
When I was growing up, my parents told me, 'Finish your dinner. People in China and India are starving.' I tell my daughters, 'Finish your homework. People in India and China are starving for your job.'
change optimistic optimism-and-pessimism
Pessimists are usually right and optimists are usually wrong but all the great changes have been accomplished by optimists.
funny humor people
Remember, in China when you are one in a million, there are 1,300 other people just like you.
valleys world india
I was in Bangalore, India, the Silicon Valley of India, when I realized that the world was flat.
next want partners
It is hard to partner with someone when you become so radioactive no one wants to stand next to you.
religious political movement
What is al Qaeda? It's an open source religious political movement that works off the global supply chain.
fighting terrorist ifs
We have to fight the terrorists as if there were no rules and preserve our open society as if there were no terrorists.
ocean sunset mean
At the end of the day, no amount of investing, no amount of clean electrons, no amount of energy efficiency will save the natural world if we are not paying attention to it - if we are not paying attention to all the things that nature give us for free: clean air, clean water, breathtaking vistas, mountains for skiing, rivers for fishing, oceans for sailing, sunsets for poets, and landscapes for painters. What good is it to have wind-powered lights to brighten the night if you can't see anything green during the day? Just because we can't sell shares in nature doesn't mean it has no value.
ecosystems innovation fuel
Do you know what my favorite renewable fuel is? An ecosystem for innovation.
marine army technology
The hidden hand of the market will never work without a hidden fist. McDonald's cannot flourish without McDonnell Douglas, the designer of the F-15. And the hidden fist that keeps the world safe for Silicon Valley's technologies to flourish is called the US Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps.
ebay order pouring
Our bailout of Detroit will be remembered as the equivalent of pouring billions of taxpayers' money into the mail-order catalogue business on the eve of the birth of eBay.
world eras tiny
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 3.0, in which the world went from being small to tiny.
boss google care
Your boss doesn't care what you know, because the Google machine knows everything. Your boss cares about what you can do with what you know. That's the only thing your boss will pay for.
mistake men talking
The philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein once remarked that if you ask a man how much is two plus two and he tells you five, that is a mistake. But if you ask a man how much is two plus two and he tells you ninety-seven, that is no longer a mistake. The man you are talking to is operating with a wholly different logic from your own.