Remember, in China when you are one in a million, there are 1,300 other people just like you. — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
When you can't rely on sticking a pipe in the ground, what you have to rely on is unlocking the energy and… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
Tap into people's dignity and they will do anything for you. Ignore it, and they won't lift a finger. — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
Capitalism makes people unequally rich. Communism makes people equally poor. — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
I said that more people in more places can now compete, connect and collaborate with equal power and equal tools than ever… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
We've gone from thinking the fuels that powered our growth were inexpensive, inexhaustible and benign to understanding they are exhaustible, expensive and… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
I've always believed the world would be a better place if more people everywhere have a chance to shape their own future… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
To me the smart thing that governments in the Middle East would be doing right now is taking their oil and gas… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
Never before in the history of the planet have so many people, on their own, had the ability to find so much… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
What we do know is that the planet is going from 7 billion people today to 9 billion. More people want to… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
If e-mail had been around before the telephone was invented, people would have said, 'Hey, forget e-mail! With this new telephone invention… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
Once people get a taste for whatever you want to call it - economic independence, a better lifestyle, and a better life… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, my parents told me, 'Finish your dinner. People in China and India are starving.' I tell my… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
I think that the drama of people rising up demanding their own freedom is one that resonates very deeply with America. I… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
By 'flat' I did not mean that the world is getting equal. I said that more people in more places can now… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
What is the most entrepreneurial country in the Middle East today? It's Lebanon. Which country has no oil or gas? Lebanon. The… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
When people get frustrated, it's when they feel they are living in a context that deprives them of dignity, deprives them of… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
America was the funder of petro-dictatorships. We treated all these countries as basically big, large gas stations: Libya station, Iraq station, Iran… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
I think the Arab awakening has changed everything and I think a lot will depend on what people there ask of us,… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
I don't think that stability and the status quo go together at all, not in a flat world where people are integrated,… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
I am being very humble about the Arab Spring. There's kind of a competition out there, you might have noticed, of who… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
The more Israel sinks into the West Bank, the more it is delegitimized and isolated, the more the world focuses on Israel's… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
I'm a capitalist. I believe in capitalism. But capitalism only works if you have safety nets to deal with people who are… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
When you go along in life and develop whatever notoriety you do, people begin to relate to you differently, and I'm just… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
American young people have got to understand from an early age that the world pays off on results, not on effort. Not… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
When I wrote 'The World Is Flat,' I said the world is flat. Yeah, we're all connected. Facebook didn't exist; Twitter was… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
There is definitely global warming, and man is definitely contributing to it. Go out to, say, Montana and talk to some pretty… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
I don't think the Arab Spring had much to do with energy. I think it was just the opposite, in fact. I… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
If you are self-motivated, wow, this world is tailored for you. The boundaries are all gone. But if you're not self-motivated, this… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
Many of us who grew up playing golf know that our kids aren't doing it. A great way to enhance the game,… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
If you want to get an advance machine tool job today, you need to know calculus. We know a lot of people… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
No matter where I go - London, Beirut, Jerusalem, Washington, Beijing, or Bangalore - I'm always looking to rediscover that land of… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
It created a global platform that allowed more people to plug and play, collaborate and compete, share knowledge and share work, than… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
We're going in the wrong direction and I think the only way to counter that is to bring the story home in… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
You win the presidency by connecting with the American people's gut insecurities and aspirations. You win with a concept. — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
Google attracts so much talent, it can afford to look beyond traditional metrics, like G.P.A. For most young people, though, going to… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
The Arab world had a big problem of frankly venal elites. That is why these revolutions happen, because people didn't think the… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
I've been a critic of the antiglobalization movement, and they've been a critic of me, but the one thing I respect about… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
Watching both the health care and climate/energy debates in Congress, it is hard not to draw the following conclusion: There is only… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
I'm a radical pro-immigration advocate. I'm not saying we just look at the Muslim world or we just look at China, we… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
I'm pretty much an open book. I am a fanatic golfer and golf nut. If I have three free hours any day, my first… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
The financial crisis just made the hole deeper, which is why our stimulus needs to be both big and smart, both financially and educationally… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
Many jobs at Google require math, computing, and coding skills, so if your good grades truly reflect skills in those areas that you can… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
Never before in the history of the planet have so many people, on their own, had the ability to find so much information about… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, my parents told me, 'Finish your dinner. People in China and India are starving.' I tell my daughters, 'Finish… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
Hillary Clinton has decided to line up with John McCain in pushing to suspend the federal excise tax on gasoline, 18.4 cents a gallon,… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
Two things are going on at the same time with the flattening of the world: The relentless quest for efficiency is squeezing some of… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
Our president's latest energy initiative was to go to Saudi Arabia and beg King Abdullah to give us a little relief on gasoline prices.… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
I don't think the Arab Spring had much to do with energy. I think it was just the opposite, in fact. I think the… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
Until we fully understand what turned two brothers who allegedly perpetrated the Boston Marathon bombings into murderers, it is hard to make any policy… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
Geopolitics is all about leverage. We cannot make ourselves safer abroad unless we change our behavior at home. — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
Big breakthroughs happen when what is suddenly possible meets what is desperately needed — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
