Thomas Friedman Quotes
"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."
- Thomas Friedman
(Related: War, Conflict, Countries, Fight, Prevention, Theory, Will)
"The hidden hand of the market will never work without a hidden fist."
- Thomas Friedman
(Related: Work, Will)
"The historical debate is over. The answer is free-market capitalism."
- Thomas Friedman
(Related: Capitalism, Debate)
"There is no substitute for face-to-face reporting and research."
- Thomas Friedman
(Related: Research)
"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."
- Thomas Friedman
(Related: Life, Time, Efficiency, Quest)
"We need to become energy independent or at least aspire to that."
- Thomas Friedman
(Related: Energy)
"You win the presidency by connecting with the American people's gut insecurities and aspirations. You win with a concept."
- Thomas Friedman
(Related: People, American, Aspirations, Presidency)
"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."
- Thomas Friedman
(Related: Behavior, Oil)
"We are led by lawyers who do not understand either technology or balance sheets."
- Thomas Friedman
(Related: Technology, Balance, Lawyers)
"No, most of our political elite has not realized that the world is flat."
- Thomas Friedman
(Related: World)
"McDonald's cannot flourish without McDonnell Douglas, the designer of the F-15."
- Thomas Friedman
"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."
- Thomas Friedman
(Related: History, Work, People, Knowledge, Play, World)
"If you don't visit the bad neighborhoods, the bad neighborhoods are going to visit you."
- Thomas Friedman
(Related: Visit)
"I was in Bangalore, India, the Silicon Valley of India, when I realized that the world was flat."
- Thomas Friedman
(Related: World)
"I have a daughter who is a sophomore in college and another who is in the 11th grade of high school."
- Thomas Friedman
(Related: Daughter, College, School)
"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."
- Thomas Friedman
(Related: Time, Research)
"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."
- Thomas Friedman
(Related: Work, Car, Wife)
"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."
- Thomas Friedman
(Related: Computer, World)
"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."
- Thomas Friedman
(Related: Being, Country, Internet, Kids, Parents, Running, Will, World)