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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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Thomas Friedman
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: July 20
Columnist
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Television Producer
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Saint Louis Park
Minnesota
Thomas Loren Friedman
Thomas L. Friedman
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No matter what your profession – doctor, lawyer, architect, accountant – if you are an American, you better be good at the touchy-feely service stuff, because anything that can be digitized can be outsourced to either the smartest or the cheapest producer.
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In the future, how we educate our children may prove to be more important than how much we educate them.
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We need to become energy independent or at least aspire to that.
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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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Everyone needs to get together and say: Our objective is to preserve and enhance the game and the planet on which it's played. To make golf a leader in greening the world.
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The philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein once remarked that if you ask a man how much is two plus two and he tells you five, that is a mistake. But if you ask a man how much is two plus two and he tells you ninety-seven, that is no longer a mistake. The man you are talking to is operating with a wholly different logic from your own.
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In Globalization 1.0, which began around 1492, the world went from size large to size medium. In Globalization 2.0, the era that introduced us to multinational companies, it went from size medium to size small. And then around 2000 came Globalization 3.0, in which the world went from being small to tiny.
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A vision without resources is an hallucination.
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The Golden Straitjacket is the defining political-economic garment of globalization. [...] The tighter you wear it, the more gold it produces.
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Never before in the history of the planet have so many people, on their own, had the ability to find so much information about so many things and about so many other people.
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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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America needs rebooting.
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I don't think the Arab Spring had much to do with energy. I think it was just the opposite, in fact. I think the Arab Spring happened because particularly young people knew they were living in a context where they could not realize their full potential, that they are being kept down by their own governments.
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We are led by lawyers who do not understand either technology or balance sheets.
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We have to fight the terrorists as if there were no rules and preserve our open society as if there were no terrorists.
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There is a connection between energy, climate, food and political stability. That has played out in the Arab awakening and is not done playing out.
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Everything I’ve ever gotten in life is largely due to the fact that I was born in this country, America, at this time with these opportunities for its citizens. It is the primary obligation of our generation to turn over a similar America to our kids.
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The Arab world had a big problem of frankly venal elites. That is why these revolutions happen, because people didn't think the opportunities were being shared fairly.
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