Thomas Friedman Globalization Quotes

#1. But my lazy lack of faith, my in-vogue atheism, has taken away the safety net hanging beneath our children's lives.

Rosamund Lupton

#2. The merger of globalization and the I.T. revolution means new products are being phased in and out so fast that companies cannot afford to wait until the end of the year to figure out whether a team leader is doing a good job.

Thomas Friedman

#3. Yes, man is mortal, but that isn't so bad. What's bad is that sometimes he's unexpectedly mortal, that's the rub. And, in general, he can't even say in the morning what he'll be doing that very same night.

Mikhail Bulgakov

#4. It was a bizarre existence I led in my early twenties - that cliche of the comedian who goes out and entertains a roomful of people and then goes home to a lonely bedsit was unbelievably poignant for me because that was exactly what I was doing. I had periods of real loneliness.

Paul Merton

#5. Hitting is the most important part of the game. It is where the big money is, where much of the status is, and the fan interest.

Ted Williams

#6. Freedom is not something that one people can bestow on another as a gift. Thy claim it as their own and none can keep it from them.

Kwame Nkrumah

#7. Somebody's going to wake up and their job in life is going to be to make guitars. There are a lot of good, talented people.

Paul Reed Smith

#8. good leadership can help creative people stay on the path to excellence no matter what business they're in.

Ed Catmull

#9. River Song: Right then. I have questions, but number one is this - what in the name of sanity have you got on your head?
The Doctor: It's a fez. I wear a fez now. Fezzes are cool.

Steven Moffat

#10. I would say that in 2000, we understand as much about how today's system of globalization is going to work as we understood about how the Cold War system was going to work in 1946.

Thomas Friedman

#11. The Golden Straitjacket is the defining political-economic garment of globalization. [ ... ] The tighter you wear it, the more gold it produces.

Thomas Friedman

#12. If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a game show host.

Gabriel Heatter

#13. A kid's emotions and personality are just as important as I.Q.

Edward Zigler

#14. Those who have minds have no regard for birth.

Marcel Proust

#15. No two countries that both had McDonald's had fought a war against each other since each got its McDonald's

Thomas L. Friedman

#16. "I'm a victim of sexual discrimination."
"No, you're the victim of a cruel sexual experiment performed by your mother and father.

Harry Enfield

#17. I don't forget you. Really.
I was just trying too hard to get you out off my mind.

Nina Ardianti

#18. Its easy to find others in pitch darkness, but to find your own self in light is hardest task

Samar Sudha

#19. Everything in the world of soul has a deep desire and longing for visible form; this is exactly where the power of the imagination lives.

John O'Donohue