108 Quotes by Thomas L. Friedman

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

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    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.

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    Your boss doesn’t care what you know, because the Google machine knows everything. Your boss cares about what you can do with what you know. That’s the only thing your boss will pay for.

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

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    Geopolitics is all about leverage. We cannot make ourselves safer abroad unless we change our behavior at home.

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

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

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