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What every employer is looking for is not someone who can do the job, but someone who can reinvent the job.

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Thomas Friedman
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: July 20
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Change your leaders, not your light bulbs.
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Optimists are usually wrong. But all the great change in history, positive change, was done by optimists.
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Iraq today does have a chance to shape its own future. They may not do that, or this generation may not do that. But maybe the next one will, I don't know. They may try and fail, and stumble, get up and fall back.
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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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In China today, Bill Gates is Britney Spears. In America today, Britney Spears is Britney Spears-and that is our problem.
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Obviously China is clearly taking the lead in some areas, but when it comes to the most advanced innovation, it's still America.
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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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We've gone from thinking the fuels that powered our growth were inexpensive, inexhaustible and benign to understanding they are exhaustible, expensive and toxic. Once you frame the problem that way, people will look at solutions differently.
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The poverty fighters resent the climate-change folks climate folks hold summits without reference to biodiversity the food advocates resist the biodiversity protectors. They all need to go on safari together.
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Yes, the world is now flat for publishing as well.
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I could see America playing a slightly smaller role in the Middle East but I would not see us abandoning the region and just say Oh, like I said, China, Russia, it's yours now. Global focus is just on our hemisphere. I don't see that happening.
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Just because we can't sell shares in nature doesn't mean it has no value.
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I love America. I think it's the best country in the world. But I also think we're not tending to our sauce.
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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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I said that more people in more places can now compete, connect and collaborate with equal power and equal tools than ever before.
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