Ann George

“The 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 L. Friedman, The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century

“Communism was a great system for making people equally poor - in fact, there was no better system in the world for that than communism. Capitalism made people unequally rich.”
― Thomas L. Friedman, The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century

“A Mexican newspaper recently ran a story about how the Converse shoe company was making tennis shoes in China using Mexican glue. “The whole article was about why are we giving them our glue,” said Zedillo, “when the right attitude would be, How much more glue can we sell them? We still need to break some mental barriers.”
― Thomas L. Friedman, The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century

“today’s workers need to approach the workplace much like athletes preparing for the Olympics, with one difference. “They have to prepare like someone who is training for the Olympics but doesn’t know what sport they are going to enter,”
― Thomas L. Friedman, The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century