Thomas L. 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

“LinkedIn was barely known and most people thought it was a prison,”

— Thomas L. Friedman

“so anyone can drill into anyone else’s past with a few thumb clicks on a PalmPilot.”

— Thomas L. Friedman

“never, ever say to someone in need: “Call me if you need help.” If you want to help someone, just do it.…

— Thomas L. Friedman

“Thank you for buying this Farrar, Straus and Giroux ebook.   To”

— Thomas L. Friedman

“Tencent, and Alibaba, the flow of crowdfunding through Kickstarter, Indiegogo, and GoFundMe,”

— Thomas L. Friedman

“Everyone goes into journalism for different reasons—and they’re often idealistic ones.”

— Thomas L. Friedman

“I got to see with my own eyes the boundaries of men’s compassion alongside their unfathomable brutality, their ingenuity alongside astounding folly,…

— Thomas L. Friedman

“in 2004 declaring that the world was flat, Facebook didn’t even exist yet, Twitter was still a sound, the cloud was still…

— Thomas L. Friedman

“We must make our choice. We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but…

— Thomas L. Friedman

“The resulting article—an almost hour-by-hour reconstruction of the massacre—was published across four full pages of The New York Times on September 26,…

— Thomas L. Friedman

“All of this weakened the G.O.P.’s foundation and opened the way for an invasive species such as Donald Trump to make deep…

— Thomas L. Friedman

“Smartphone technology gave rise to Uber, but before the world figures out how to regulate ride-sharing, self-driving cars will have made those…

— Thomas L. Friedman

“It was like working in a dark cave with the aid of a single candle. Just when you thought you had spotted…

— Thomas L. Friedman

“We work with both parents and their children to make lasting progress. Supporting the entire family to succeed is critically important, because…

— Thomas L. Friedman

“Successful students had one or more teachers who were mentors and took a real interest in their aspirations, and they had an…

— Thomas L. Friedman

“If I have to bet, I am going to bet on those lakes. I am going to bet on the basic decency…

— Thomas L. Friedman

“The Levantine political idea, which grew naturally among the communities of the eastern Mediterranean, was an original way of dealing with diverse…

— Thomas L. Friedman

“Goods are traded, but services are consumed and produced in the same place. And you cannot export a haircut. But we are…

— Thomas L. Friedman

“set myself the task of starting with a blank sheet of paper and asking not what it means to be a “conservative”…

— Thomas L. Friedman

“Social conservatives from the right wing of the Republican party, who do not like globalization or closer integration with the world because…

— Thomas L. Friedman

“heart, it’s driven by a deep human desire for collaboration and a deep human desire for recognition and affirmation of work well…

— Thomas L. Friedman

“This gruesome and absurd doorstep suicide symbolized for me the mood of Beirut at the end of 1983 and in early 1984—a…

— Thomas L. Friedman

“As the Lebanese sociologist Samir Khalaf summed it up: “Though the average Lebanese derives much … social support and psychological reinforcement from…

— Thomas L. Friedman

“But the question that tugged at me, and I asked over and over was: What was that “it” that was being sustained?…

— Thomas L. Friedman

“Jonathan Haidt, a social psychologist at the NYU Stern School of Business, made the case for why in an essay in The…

— Thomas L. Friedman

“Consider a New York Times story from April 22, 2014, that reported: Something strange is happening at farms in upstate New York.…

— Thomas L. Friedman

“This Levantine spirit developed gradually in Beirut after the Industrial Revolution, as the burgeoning Lebanese silk trade and the invention of the…

— Thomas L. Friedman

“One of the newest figures to emerge on the world stage in recent years is the social entrepreneur. This is usually someone…

— Thomas L. Friedman

“Because Beirut was never just a city. It was an idea—an idea that meant something not only to the Lebanese but to…

— Thomas L. Friedman

“I once heard Jerry Yang, the cofounder of Yahoo!, quote a senior Chinese government official as saying, "Where people have hope, you…

— Thomas L. Friedman

“You can be a rich person alone. You can be a smart person alone. But you cannot be a complete person alone.…

— Thomas L. Friedman

“It is fun to be around really, really creative makers in the second half of the chessboard, to see what they can…

— Thomas L. Friedman

“No one has expressed what is needed better than Abdel Rahman al-Rashed, the general manager of the London-based al-Arabiya news channel. One…

— Thomas L. Friedman

“Men grant and withdraw their love according to their whims, but fear is a hand that rests on their shoulders in a…

— Thomas L. Friedman

“At its best, the Internet can educate more people faster than any media tool we've ever had. At its worst, it can…

— Thomas L. Friedman

“Second, in the desert there was no outside mediator or government to enforce laws or to adjudicate disputes in a neutral way…

— Thomas L. Friedman

“this is a real double blow. It is akin to having your life-long hero, the person around whom you have modeled your…

— Thomas L. Friedman

“While their parents knew a different life and would never really feel at home again without it, their kids had never known…

— Thomas L. Friedman

“With so many generous friends and family members from so many places for so many years, how could I not still be…

— Thomas L. Friedman