Quotes By Thomas Friedman

Several technological and political forces have converged, and that has produced a global, Web-enabled playing field that allows for multiple forms of collaboration without regard to geography or distance - or soon, even language.

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

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

Golf has an ambivalent relationship with the environment. On one hand, it's a great preserver of open spaces. Golf doesn't pave the world - it helps to green the world. But the downside is, it uses a lot of fertilizer, pesticides and water.

When I was growing up, my parents told me, 'Finish your dinner. People in China and India are starving.' I tell my daughters, 'Finish your homework. People in India and China are starving for your job.'

Rock stars get room keys, I get business cards. Wherever I go I meet innovators of wind power equipment, solar energy operators.

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.

Every sport needs its temple, its cathedral.

Every golf course should have its carbon rating on the scorecard, alongside its Course Rating, Slope, par and yardage.

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

I firmly believe that the next great breakthrough in bioscience could come from a 15-year-old who downloads the human genome in Egypt.

You win the presidency by connecting with the American people's gut insecurities and aspirations. You win with a concept.

My mom enlisted in the U.S. Navy in World War II, and my parents actually bought our home thanks to the loan she got through the GI Bill.

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

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

Nature is regulating our climate for free. Mother Nature, she's been doing that for free, for a long, long time. Now do you really want to get in there and do geo-engineering and all this kind of stuff?

A golf course should aspire to generate as much energy as it consumes - golf should be leading the way toward energy net zero.

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

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

In Globalization 1.0, which began around 1492, the world went from size large to size medium. In Globalization 2.0, the era that introduced us to multinational companies, it went from size medium to size small. And then around 2000 came Globalization 3.0, in which the world went from being small to tiny.

If you followed this economic crisis and you do not think that the world is getting flatter, you are not paying attention. We saw the entire global economy at one time acting totally in sync. The real truth is the world is even flatter than I thought. Our mortgage crisis is killing Deutsche Bank. You still don't think the world is flat?

We say that necessity is the mother of invention, and no country has more of a necessity to develop clean power than China.

We need better neighbors, neighbors that care about the schools in their neighborhood whether they have kids in them or not, because they know that the health and vitality of that neighborhood depends on it.

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

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

Al Qaeda is nothing more than a mutant supply chain. They're playing off the same platform as Wal-Mart and Dell. They're just not restrained by it. What is al Qaeda? It's an open source religious political movement that works off the global supply chain. That's what we're up against in Iraq. We're up against a suicide supply chain.

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

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

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.

You take one bomber and deploy him in Baghdad, and another is manufactured in Riyadh the next day. It's exactly like when you take the toy off the shelf at Wal-Mart and another is made in Shen Zhen the next day.