Thomas Friedman Quotes

You embrace disruption. I think it's a good thing.

The only phrase I've ever disliked is, 'Why, we've always done it that way.' I always tell young people, 'Go ahead and do it. You can always apologize later.'

Jobs was brave enough to think differently, bold enough to believe he could change the world, and talented enough to do it.

The job isn't to catch up to the status quo; the job is to invent the status quo.

The most successful businesses have an idea for the future that's very different from the present - and that's not fully valued.

You have to change the set, stay ahead of the curve.

I don't believe in pitfalls. I believe in taking risks and not doing the same thing twice.

News organisations that have been around a while have a lot of traditions and ways of doing things that may have served them for many years but perhaps make them less flexible in the digital era. As an entrepreneur, it just makes more sense to start something new.

Reasonable men adapt to the world around them; unreasonable men make the world adapt to them. The world is changed by unreasonable men.

Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.

We tell prospective hires, 'If you want an environment that is never going to change, don't come here. This is not the place for you.'

AAP is like a start-up. You do roles you would have never imagined.

One does not succeed by sticking to convention.

An enterprising person is one who sees opportunity in all areas of life.

The ability to recognize opportunities and move in new - and sometimes unexpected - directions will benefit you no matter your interests or aspirations.

People are out there looking for jobs and realizing that they have to look within to do and create what the new and next thing will be. They can't rely anymore on what was usually given to them.

Change before you're forced to change.

No matter what business you are in, there is change, and it's happening pretty quickly.

The important thing to remember, if you are trying something that is an innovation, is not to think too much about it. Because if you take too long, by the time you get there, the world will have changed. You take a risk, and if it doesn't work, you make a change. We are not betting our lives on it.

You know that I'm always a proponent of doing things differently.

To innovate is not to reform.

Anyone who does anything creative is always gonna want to change.

We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of experience.

You gotta be able to change worlds.

Audiences are shifting. Platforms are shifting. Ages are shifting. It's better to be in charge of change than to have to react to change.