--- title: "1 Smart person Quotes By Thomas L. Friedman" description: "1 Smart person quotes by Thomas L. Friedman. Plus more from Thomas L. Friedman and more Smart person sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6ca/thomas-l-friedman-5270_every-morning_you-can-be-a-rich-person-alone-you-can-b_1596753.jpg" --- > [“You can be a rich person alone. You can be a smart person alone. But you cannot be a complete person alone. For that you must be part of, and rooted in, an olive grove. This truth was once beautifully…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-l-friedman/you-can-be-a-rich-person-alone-you-can-be-a-smart-person-alone-but/) [Thomas L. Friedman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-l-friedman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6ca/thomas-l-friedman-5270_every-morning_you-can-be-a-rich-person-alone-you-can-b_1596753.jpg) ## Other authors on Smart person ## More by Thomas L. Friedman > [“When my dad died suddenly, my widowed mom couldn’t afford my college tuition, so Morrie and his friend Jake Garber, my dad’s boss, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-l-friedman/when-my-dad-died-suddenly-my-widowed-mom-couldn-t-afford-my-college/) [Thomas L. Friedman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-l-friedman/) > [“These alliances began with the most basic blood association—the family—and then expanded to the clan, the tribe, and then to other tribes.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-l-friedman/these-alliances-began-with-the-most-basic-blood-association-the/) [Thomas L. Friedman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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 it brings…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-l-friedman/social-conservatives-from-the-right-wing-of-the-republican-party-who/) [Thomas L. Friedman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-l-friedman/) > [“When Muslim radicals and fundamentalists look at the West, they see only the openness that makes us, in their eyes, decadent and promiscuous. They…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-l-friedman/when-muslim-radicals-and-fundamentalists-look-at-the-west-they-see/) [Thomas L. Friedman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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 way they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-l-friedman/men-grant-and-withdraw-their-love-according-to-their-whims-but-fear/) [Thomas L. Friedman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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? I needed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-l-friedman/but-the-question-that-tugged-at-me-and-i-asked-over-and-over-was-what/) [Thomas L. Friedman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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 do, as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-l-friedman/it-is-fun-to-be-around-really-really-creative-makers-in-the-second/) [Thomas L. Friedman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-l-friedman/) > [“Today more than ever, the traditional boundaries between politics, culture, technology, finance, national security and ecology are disappearing. You often cannot explain one without…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-l-friedman/today-more-than-ever-the-traditional-boundaries-between-politics/) [Thomas L. Friedman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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 between tribes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-l-friedman/second-in-the-desert-there-was-no-outside-mediator-or-government-to/) [Thomas L. Friedman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-l-friedman/) > [“NAZ was founded in 2008 in Minneapolis, and is modeled on Geoffrey Canada’s Harlem Children’s Zone. It uses a holistic web of family coaches…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-l-friedman/naz-was-founded-in-2008-in-minneapolis-and-is-modeled-on-geoffrey/) [Thomas L. Friedman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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, their insanity…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-l-friedman/i-got-to-see-with-my-own-eyes-the-boundaries-of-men-s-compassion/) [Thomas L. Friedman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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 anything else…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-l-friedman/while-their-parents-knew-a-different-life-and-would-never-really-feel/) [Thomas L. Friedman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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, 1982; it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-l-friedman/the-resulting-article-an-almost-hour-by-hour-reconstruction-of-the/) [Thomas L. Friedman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-l-friedman/) > [“LinkedIn was barely known and most people thought it was a prison,”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-l-friedman/linkedin-was-barely-known-and-most-people-thought-it-was-a-prison/) [Thomas L. Friedman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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 coming close…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-l-friedman/goods-are-traded-but-services-are-consumed-and-produced-in-the-same/) [Thomas L. 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