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  • Journalist
  • born 1953
  • 217 quotes

Thomas Friedman, a journalist (born 1953), is quoted 217 times on QuoteForever. The subjects that come up most often are World, America, Needs and People.

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America needs rebooting.

Change your leaders, not your light bulbs.

Every sport needs its temple, its cathedral.

Guantanamo Bay is the anti-Statue of Liberty.

A vision without resources is an hallucination.

Rock stars get room keys, I get business cards.

We have to be the best global citizens we can be.

Yes, the world is now flat for publishing as well.

I've always enjoyed the communal side of Jewish life.

If you don't visit a bad neighborhood, it might visit you.

Desktop freelancers and innovative startups all over the world

There is no substitute for face-to-face reporting and research.

Presidents grow up in the White House. The times shape the man.

We need to become energy independent or at least aspire to that.

I'm from Minnesota. I'm optimistic. I mean, that's just who I am.

Inspiring conduct has so much more of an impact than coercing it.

Hope and optimism aren't just attitudes, they are life strategies.

The only engine big enough to impact Mother Nature is Father Greed.

The hidden hand of the market will never work without a hidden fist.

The historical debate is over. The answer is free-market capitalism.

In the hyperconnected world, there is only “good” “better” and “best.

I attended public school with the same group of kids from K through 12.

No, most of our political elite has not realized that the world is flat.

Just because we can't sell shares in nature doesn't mean it has no value.

Do you know what my favorite renewable fuel is? An ecosystem for innovation.

Capitalism makes people unequally rich. Communism makes people equally poor.

McDonald's cannot flourish without McDonnell Douglas, the builder of the F-15.

McDonald's cannot flourish without McDonnell Douglas, the designer of the F-15.

You'll know the green revolution has been won when the word 'green' disappears.

We are led by lawyers who do not understand either technology or balance sheets.

America is interested in change and reform in the Middle East but in a stable way.

When you lose your job, the unemployment rate isn't four percent, it's 100 percent.

If you don't visit the bad neighborhoods, the bad neighborhoods are going to visit you.

Big breakthroughs happen when what is suddenly possible meets what is desperately needed

Capitalism and political systems - like companies - must constantly evolve to stay vital.

Remember, in China when you are one in a million, there are 1,300 other people just like you.

Iraq may still have a decent outcome...but even if it becomes Switzerland, we overpaid for it.

I was in Bangalore, India, the Silicon Valley of India, when I realized that the world was flat.

Our kids are going to be so angry with us one day. We've charged their future on our Visa cards.

It is hard to partner with someone when you become so radioactive no one wants to stand next to you.

I have a daughter who is a sophomore in college and another who is in the 11th grade of high school.

Tap into people's dignity and they will do anything for you. Ignore it, and they won't lift a finger.

In the future, how we educate our children may prove to be more important than how much we educate them.

Optimists are usually wrong. But all the great change in history, positive change, was done by optimists.

What is al Qaeda? It's an open source religious political movement that works off the global supply chain.

The first rule of holes is when you're in one, stop digging. When you're in three, bring a lot of shovels.

What every employer is looking for is not someone who can do the job, but someone who can reinvent the job.

No two countries that both had McDonald's had fought a war against each other since each got its McDonald's

I love America. I think it's the best country in the world. But I also think we're not tending to our sauce.

Most jobs are outsourced to the past, they aren't outsourced to India or Mexico or Pakistan or anywhere else.

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