Thomas Friedman Quotes

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• That's right-the striking thing about greenhouse gases is the diversity of sources that emit them. A herd of cattle belching can be worse than highway…
• Change your leaders, not your light bulbs.
• We're going in the wrong direction and I think the only way to counter that is to bring the story home in really concrete ways…
• Tap into people's dignity and they will do anything for you. Ignore it, and they won't lift a finger.
• A vision without resources is an hallucination.
• C'mon kids! Wake up and smell the CO2! Take over your administration building, occupy your university president's office, or storm in on the next meeting…
• Our kids are going to be so angry with us one day. We've charged their future on our Visa cards.
• No two countries that both had McDonald's had fought a war against each other since each got its McDonald's
• Big breakthroughs happen when what is suddenly possible meets what is desperately needed
• Remember, in China when you are one in a million, there are 1,300 other people just like you.
• Never before in the history of the planet have so many people, on their own, had the ability to find so much information about so…
• Saudi hijackers first came into contact with al-Qaeda and went through Terrorism 101 when they signed up for the jihad in Afghanistan.
• 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…
• Benjamin Netanyahu understands that the standing ovation he got in Congress this year was not for his politics. That ovation was bought and paid for…
• 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.…
• Desktop freelancers and innovative startups all over the world
• What every employer is looking for is not someone who can do the job, but someone who can reinvent the job.
• We need to become energy independent or at least aspire to that.
• What about the rest of life? Respect for the sanctity of life, if you believe that it begins at conception, cannot end at birth.
• Watching both the health care and climate/energy debates in Congress, it is hard not to draw the following conclusion: There is only one thing worse…

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