Our kids are going to be so angry with us one day. We've charged their future on our Visa cards.
Thomas FriedmanI said that more people in more places can now compete, connect and collaborate with equal power and equal tools than ever before.
Thomas FriedmanIt is hard to partner with someone when you become so radioactive no one wants to stand next to you.
Thomas FriedmanThe ideal country in a flat world is the one with no natural resources, because countries with no natural resources tend to dig inside themselves. They try to tap the energy, entrepreneurship, creativity, and intelligence of their own people-men and women-rather than drill an oil well.
Thomas FriedmanWe are entering a hyperconnected world where every boss now has more access, cheap access to cheap labor, cheap genius, cheap robot, cheap software, and then this world averages over. There is only one answer to that, and that is to get everyone as close as possible to some form of post-secondary education, it could be vocational, it can be liberal arts, it can be science and technology.
Thomas Friedman