Quotes By Thomas Friedman

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

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

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

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

I said that more people in more places can now compete, connect and collaborate with equal power and equal tools than ever before.

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

Rock stars get room keys, I get business cards.

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.

I'm a capitalist. I believe in capitalism. But capitalism only works if you have safety nets to deal with people who are naturally left behind and brutalized by it.

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?

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

If you don't have an ethic of conservation, you basically have a license to drive a Hummer through the Amazon.

The country that owns green, that dominates that industry, is going to have the most energy security, national security, economic security, competitive companies, healthy population and, most of all, global respect.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.