Thomas L. Friedman

Quotes

• “Goods are traded, but services are consumed and produced in the same place. And you cannot export a haircut. But we are ...”
• “It is so easy to demonize free-market and the freedom to outsource and offshore because it is so much easier to see peop...”
• “A Nobel Prize winner was asked how he became a scientist. He said that every day after school, his mother would ask him ...”
• “Virulence is the sound of a self-selecting community talking to itself and positively reinforcing itself with no obligat...”
• “When widely followed public figures feel free to say anything, without any fact-checking, it becomes impossible for a de...”
• “It is always dangerous to declare a turning point in history. We always tend to feel that, when we are alive, something ...”
• “The fall of the Berlin Wall on 11/9/89 unleashed forces that ultimately liberated all the captive peoples of the Soviet ...”
• “Pessimists are usually right and optimists are usually wrong but all the great changes have been accomplished by optimis...”
• “Development is a voluntary process. You need a positive decision to make the right steps, but it starts with introspecti...”
• “You have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.”
• “No low-trust society will ever produce sustained innovation.”
• “Nobody works harder at learning than a curious kid.”
• “Culture is nested in context, not genes.”