Thomas Friedman Quotes

Making those around you feel invisible is the opposite of leadership.

Psychology is as important as substance. If you treat people with respect, they will go out of their way to accommodate you. If you treat them in a patronizing way, they will go out of their way to make your life difficult.

I think a lot of the source of how people are treated depends on the fact if someone recognizes them as a human being or not, you know what I mean?

It's beautiful to have people look me in the eyes and actually treat me like a human.

In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.

The kind of support the down-and-out need is the kind we have always refused them, the kind that would mean engaging with them not as objects of contempt, but as fellow human beings.

The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.

Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.

It is easier to motivate people to do something difficult than something easy.

I'm curious about people, and I'm curious about getting to the root of where they might be coming from.

People want to feel understood by their leaders.

I don't expect to be coddled, but I'm also a human being.

That seems to be my superpower - really understanding what motivates people.

I was always extremely curious about why people did the things they do.

We're all people", he said simply. "It doesn't matter if you're two, thirty-two, or ninety-two. Everyone wants to be treated with respect. Everyone wants to feel like they matter in this world.

Let's face it: people don't have respect for other people. That's the story here. When everyone is respected, then we can all live within magic.

Treat 'em like dogs, and you'll have dogs' works and dogs' actions. Treat 'em like men, and you'll have men's works.

When you see someone as a human being, you begin to understand most people are doing what they believe is right. I ask myself, "What if you were wrong? How would you want someone to engage with you?"

My favorite part is being engaged with somebody's story and life, and getting a laugh with people I have a tremendous amount of respect for or not, and being challenged by the immediacy of conversation.

We have to start seeing people as human beings. Our entire humanity depends on that.

One must have ambition and one must understand the minds ... of men.

To feed men and not to love them is to treat them as if they were barnyard cattle. To love them and not respect them is to treat them as if they were household pets.

Tell a man something is bad, and he's not at all sure he wants to give it up. Describe it as stupid, and he knows it's the better part of caution to listen.

People's motivations haven't changed in maybe 400 or maybe 4,000 years.

The poorest being that crawls on earth, contending to save itself from injustice and oppression, is an object respectable in the eyes of God and man.