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Thomas Friedman [1953-0] American

Rank: 101
Journalist

Thomas Loren Friedman is an American journalist, author, and three time Pulitzer Prize winner.
Friedman currently writes a weekly column for The New York Times.

Education, Teacher, Car, Change, Environmental, Future, History, Knowledge, Learning, Legal, Mom, Positive, Relationship, Respect, Society, Sports, Technology, Teen, War

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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.'	Teen	101
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.		102
There is no substitute for face-to-face reporting and research.		103
I was in Bangalore, India, the Silicon Valley of India, when I realized that the world was flat.		104
Optimists are usually wrong. But all the great change in history, positive change, was done by optimists.	Change, History, Positive	105
The country that owns green, that dominates that industry, is going to have the most energy security, national security, economic security, competitive companies, healthy population and, most of all, global respect.	Respect	106
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; and Skype, for most people, was a typo.		107
Lord knows there's a lot of bad news in the world today to get you down, but there is one big thing happening that leaves me incredibly hopeful about the future, and that is the budding revolution in global online higher education.	Education, Future	108
There's no question that a great teacher can make a huge difference in a student's achievement, and we need to recruit, train and reward more such teachers. But here's what some new studies are also showing: We need better parents. Parents more focused on their children's education can also make a huge difference in a student's achievement.	Education, Teacher	109
America still has the right stuff to thrive. We still have the most creative, diverse, innovative culture and open society - in a world where the ability to imagine and generate new ideas with speed and to implement them through global collaboration is the most important competitive advantage.	Society	110
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.		111
You take one bomber and deploy him in Baghdad, and another is manufactured in Riyadh the next day. It's exactly like when you take the toy off the shelf at Wal-Mart and another is made in Shen Zhen the next day.		112
I firmly believe that the next great breakthrough in bioscience could come from a 15-year-old who downloads the human genome in Egypt.		113
Golf has an ambivalent relationship with the environment. On one hand, it's a great preserver of open spaces. Golf doesn't pave the world - it helps to green the world. But the downside is, it uses a lot of fertilizer, pesticides and water.	Relationship	114
There is nothing more valuable than great classroom instruction. But let's stop putting the whole burden on teachers. We also need better parents. Better parents can make every teacher more effective.	Teacher	115
The Dell Theory of Conflict Prevention argues that no two countries that are both part of the same global supply chain will ever fight a war as long as they are each part of that supply chain.	War	116
If you don't visit the bad neighborhoods, the bad neighborhoods are going to visit you.		117
I basically did all the library research for this book on Google, and it not only saved me enormous amounts of time but actually gave me a much richer offering of research in a shorter time.		118
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.		119
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 difference in kind.		120
Every golf course should have its carbon rating on the scorecard, alongside its Course Rating, Slope, par and yardage.		121
Do you know what my favorite renewable fuel is? An ecosystem for innovation.		122
Nature is regulating our climate for free. Mother Nature, she's been doing that for free, for a long, long time. Now do you really want to get in there and do geo-engineering and all this kind of stuff?	Environmental	123
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 literature from Edinburgh - paying only the nominal fee for the certificates of completion.		124
We are led by lawyers who do not understand either technology or balance sheets.	Legal, Technology	125
The historical debate is over. The answer is free-market capitalism.		126
It created a global platform that allowed more people to plug and play, collaborate and compete, share knowledge and share work, than anything we have ever seen in the history of the world.	Knowledge	201
By 'flat' I did not mean that the world is getting equal. I said that more people in more places can now compete, connect and collaborate with equal power and equal tools than ever before. That's why an Indian in Bangalore can take care of the office work of American doctors or read the X-rays of German hospitals.		202
Rock stars get room keys, I get business cards. Wherever I go I meet innovators of wind power equipment, solar energy operators.		203
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.		204
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.		205
We need to become energy independent or at least aspire to that.		206
Rock stars get room keys, I get business cards.		207
If you followed this economic crisis and you do not think that the world is getting flatter, you are not paying attention. We saw the entire global economy at one time acting totally in sync. The real truth is the world is even flatter than I thought. Our mortgage crisis is killing Deutsche Bank. You still don't think the world is flat?		208
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 chain. That's what we're up against in Iraq. We're up against a suicide supply chain.		209
Every sport needs its temple, its cathedral.	Sports	210
We've gone from thinking the fuels that powered our growth were inexpensive, inexhaustible and benign to understanding they are exhaustible, expensive and toxic. Once you frame the problem that way, people will look at solutions differently.		211
I'm from Minnesota. I'm optimistic. I mean, that's just who I am.		212
When it comes to dealing with the world's climate and energy challenges, I have a simple rule: change America, change the world.		213
Being really good at 'learning how to learn,' as President Bill Brody of Johns Hopkins put it, will be an enormous asset in an era of rapid change and innovation, when new jobs will be phased in and old ones phased out faster than ever.	Learning	214
I think we have lost our groove as a country. One of the reasons was the attack on 9/11. We got knocked off our game. From a country that always exported hope we went into the business of exporting fear.		215
I said that more people in more places can now compete, connect and collaborate with equal power and equal tools than ever before.		216
What is al Qaeda? It's an open source religious political movement that works off the global supply chain.		217
If you don't have an ethic of conservation, you basically have a license to drive a Hummer through the Amazon.		218
Natural gas emits only half the carbon dioxide of coal when burned, but if methane leaks when oil companies extract it from the ground in a sloppy manner - methane is far more potent a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide - it can wipe out all the advantages of natural gas over coal.		219
If the Republican Party continues to take the view that there must be no tax increases, we're stuck. Capitalism can't work without safety nets or fiscal prudence, and we need both in a sustainable balance.		220
Whatever you may be thinking when you apply for a job today, you can be sure the employer is asking this: Can this person add value every hour, every day - more than a worker in India, a robot or a computer? Can he or she help my company adapt by not only doing the job today but also reinventing the job for tomorrow?		221
The hidden hand of the market will never work without a hidden fist.		222
McDonald's cannot flourish without McDonnell Douglas, the designer of the F-15.		223
I am hoping, though, that many of them have kids, who, when they have a moment to take a break from their iPods, Internet, or Google, will explain to their parents running the country just how the world is being flattened.		224
No matter where I go - London, Beirut, Jerusalem, Washington, Beijing, or Bangalore - I'm always looking to rediscover that land of ten thousand lakes where politics actually worked to make people's lives better, not pull them apart.		225
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.	Mom	226
Many authors hate to go on grinding book tours. But I've always found it a useful way to be a foreign correspondent in America and take the pulse of the country.		301
The more Israel sinks into the West Bank, the more it is delegitimized and isolated, the more the world focuses on Israel's colonialism rather than Iran's nuclear enrichment, the more people call for a single democratic state in all of historic Palestine.		302
You win the presidency by connecting with the American people's gut insecurities and aspirations. You win with a concept.		303
Yes, the world is now flat for publishing as well.		304
Two things are going on at the same time with the flattening of the world: The relentless quest for efficiency is squeezing some of the fat out of life.		305
Sometimes, when my wife and I were going out to dinner, I would take my laptop with me and work in the car, so as to take advantage of the half hour going and coming.	Car	306
No, most of our political elite has not realized that the world is flat.		307
I have a daughter who is a sophomore in college and another who is in the 11th grade of high school.		308
Several technological and political forces have converged, and that has produced a global, Web-enabled playing field that allows for multiple forms of collaboration without regard to geography or distance - or soon, even language.		309
Presidents grow up in the White House. The times shape the man.		310
I've been a critic of the antiglobalization movement, and they've been a critic of me, but the one thing I respect about the movement is their authentic energy. These are not people who don't care about the world.		311
We need better neighbors, neighbors that care about the schools in their neighborhood whether they have kids in them or not, because they know that the health and vitality of that neighborhood depends on it.		312
A golf course should aspire to generate as much energy as it consumes - golf should be leading the way toward energy net zero.		313
We say that necessity is the mother of invention, and no country has more of a necessity to develop clean power than China.		314
I attended public school with the same group of kids from K through 12.		315
You'll know the green revolution has been won when the word 'green' disappears.		316
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.		317
Many jobs at Google require math, computing, and coding skills, so if your good grades truly reflect skills in those areas that you can apply, it would be an advantage. But Google has its eyes on much more.		318
Netscape brought the Internet alive with the browser. They made the Internet so that Grandma could use it, and her grandchildren could use it. The second thing that Netscape did was commercialize a set of open transmission protocols so that no company could own the Net.		319
When you go along in life and develop whatever notoriety you do, people begin to relate to you differently, and I'm just always most comfortable with the people I grew up with.		321
I've always enjoyed the communal side of Jewish life.		322
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.		323
We need a proper balance between government spending on nursing homes and nursery schools - on the last six months of life and the first six months of life.		324
Capitalism and political systems - like companies - must constantly evolve to stay vital.		325
Inspiring conduct has so much more of an impact than coercing it.		326
The merger of globalization and the I.T. revolution means new products are being phased in and out so fast that companies cannot afford to wait until the end of the year to figure out whether a team leader is doing a good job.		401
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.		402
When I think back on my favorite teachers, I don't remember anymore much of what they taught me, but I sure remember being excited about learning it. What has stayed with me are not the facts they imparted, but the excitement about learning they inspired.		403
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.		404
America needs rebooting.		405
I love America. I think it's the best country in the world. But I also think we're not tending to our sauce.		406

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