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Thomas Friedman

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


— Thomas Friedman


#basically #conservation #drive #ethic #license

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


#anything #collaborate #compete #created #ever

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


— Thomas Friedman


#designer #douglas #flourish #mcdonald #without

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.


— Thomas Friedman


#bill #bought #enlisted #got #home

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


— Thomas Friedman


#done #great #great change #history #optimists

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


— Thomas Friedman


#grow up #house #man #presidents #shape

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


— Thomas Friedman


#cards #energy #equipment #get #go

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


#car #coming #dinner #going #half

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


#chain #conflict #countries #dell #each

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


— Thomas Friedman


#reporting #research #substitute






About Thomas Friedman

Thomas Friedman Quotes




Did you know about Thomas Friedman?

From Beirut to Jerusalem (1989; expanded edition 1990) — winner of the National Book Award in its first edition
The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization (1999; revised edition 2000)
Longitudes and Attitudes: Exploring the World After September 11 (2002; reprinted 2003 as Longitudes and Attitudes: The World in the Age of Terrorism)
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of The Twenty-first Century (2005; expanded edition 2006; revised edition 2007)
Hot Flat and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution—And How It Can Renew America (2008)
That Used To Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back (Co-written with Michael Mandelbaum 2011)


Documentaries
Friedman has hosted several documentaries for the Discovery Channel from several locations around the world. Biography
Thomas Friedman was born in St. In Green: The New Red White and Blue (2007) Friedman elaborates on the green technologies and efforts touched on in Addicted to Oil and in doing so attempts to redefine green energy as geostrategic geoeconomic capitalistic and patriotic.

He has written extensively on foreign affairs including global trade the Middle East globalization and environmental issues and has won the Pulitzer Prize three times. He writes a twice-weekly column for The New York Times. Thomas Lauren Friedman (born July 20 1953) is an American journalist columnist and author.

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