Books that are based on facts, real events, and real lives.
If you don’t visit the bad neighborhood, the bad neighborhood is going to visit you.
Thomas L. Friedman – The World is Flat: A Brief History of the 21st Century
Globalization has accidentally made Beijing, Bangalore and Bethesda next door neighbors.
Thomas L. Friedman – The World is Flat: A Brief History of the 21st Century
You cannot remain analog in this digital world.
Thomas L. Friedman – The World is Flat: A Brief History of the 21st Century
The flattening of the world means that we are now connecting all the knowledge centers on the planet together into a single global network.
Thomas L. Friedman – The World is Flat: A Brief History of the 21st Century
History moves in cycles, but the future is shaped by the steady march of innovation and progress.
Thomas L. Friedman – The World is Flat: A Brief History of the 21st Century
Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up… It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed… Every morning a lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn’t matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle. When the sun comes up, you better start running.
Thomas L. Friedman – The World is Flat: A Brief History of the 21st Century
The triple convergence has created a playing field more level than at any time in history.
Thomas L. Friedman – The World is Flat: A Brief History of the 21st Century
Outsourcing, insourcing, offshoring, supply-chaining, and informing are all part of the complex processes that make a flat world tick.
Thomas L. Friedman – The World is Flat: A Brief History of the 21st Century
The great challenge of this century is to absorb the ten forces that flattened the world into our societies and our minds, and then act upon them.
Thomas L. Friedman – The World is Flat: A Brief History of the 21st Century
Never before in the history of the world has so much power been in the hands of so many people to design, shape, or destroy their own futures.
Thomas L. Friedman – The World is Flat: A Brief History of the 21st Century