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- Nov 07, 2020
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- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
You win the presidency by connecting with the American people's gut insecurities and aspirations. You win with a concept.
- Now
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yes, the world is now flat for publishing as well.
- Legal
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are led by lawyers who do not understand either technology or balance sheets.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Two things are going on at the same time with the flattening of the world: The relentless quest for efficiency is squeezing some of the fat out of life.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Dell Theory of Conflict Prevention argues that no two countries that are both part of the same global supply chain will ever fight a war as long as they are each part of that supply chain.
- Lose
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- Nov 07, 2020
Supply chains cannot tolerate even 24 hours of disruption. So if you lose your place in the supply chain because of wild behavior you could lose a lot. It would be like pouring cement down one of your oil wells.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes, when my wife and I were going out to dinner, I would take my laptop with me and work in the car, so as to take advantage of the half hour going and coming.
- Flourish
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- Nov 07, 2020
McDonald's cannot flourish without McDonnell Douglas, the designer of the F-15.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nov 07, 2020
I was in Bangalore, India, the Silicon Valley of India, when I realized that the world was flat.
- High School
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a daughter who is a sophomore in college and another who is in the 11th grade of high school.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I basically did all the library research for this book on Google, and it not only saved me enormous amounts of time but actually gave me a much richer offering of research in a shorter time.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am hoping, though, that many of them have kids, who, when they have a moment to take a break from their iPods, Internet, or Google, will explain to their parents running the country just how the world is being flattened.
- Coastal
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- Nov 07, 2020
Basically all the world's computer parts come from the same supply chain that runs from Korea, down through coastal China, over to Taiwan, and down to Malaysia.
- Cards
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rock stars get room keys, I get business cards.
- Exporting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think we have lost our groove as a country. One of the reasons was the attack on 9/11. We got knocked off our game. From a country that always exported hope we went into the business of exporting fear.
- Needs
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- Nov 07, 2020
America needs rebooting.
- Economic Crisis
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you followed this economic crisis and you do not think that the world is getting flatter, you are not paying attention. We saw the entire global economy at one time acting totally in sync. The real truth is the world is even flatter than I thought. Our mortgage crisis is killing Deutsche Bank. You still don't think the world is flat?
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
By 'flat' I did not mean that the world is getting equal. I said that more people in more places can now compete, connect and collaborate with equal power and equal tools than ever before. That's why an Indian in Bangalore can take care of the office work of American doctors or read the X-rays of German hospitals.
- Geography
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- Nov 07, 2020
Several technological and political forces have converged, and that has produced a global, Web-enabled playing field that allows for multiple forms of collaboration without regard to geography or distance - or soon, even language.
- Cheaper
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a difference between being able to make long distance phone calls cheaper on the Internet and walking around Riyadh with a PDA where you can have all of Google in your pocket. It's a difference in degree that's so enormous it becomes a difference in kind.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Al Qaeda is nothing more than a mutant supply chain. They're playing off the same platform as Wal-Mart and Dell. They're just not restrained by it. What is al Qaeda? It's an open source religious political movement that works off the global supply chain. That's what we're up against in Iraq. We're up against a suicide supply chain.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
You take one bomber and deploy him in Baghdad, and another is manufactured in Riyadh the next day. It's exactly like when you take the toy off the shelf at Wal-Mart and another is made in Shen Zhen the next day.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I firmly believe that the next great breakthrough in bioscience could come from a 15-year-old who downloads the human genome in Egypt.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was growing up, my parents told me, 'Finish your dinner. People in China and India are starving.' I tell my daughters, 'Finish your homework. People in India and China are starving for your job.'
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rock stars get room keys, I get business cards. Wherever I go I meet innovators of wind power equipment, solar energy operators.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I said that more people in more places can now compete, connect and collaborate with equal power and equal tools than ever before.
- Globalization
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Movement
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- Nov 07, 2020
What is al Qaeda? It's an open source religious political movement that works off the global supply chain.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love America. I think it's the best country in the world. But I also think we're not tending to our sauce.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been a critic of the antiglobalization movement, and they've been a critic of me, but the one thing I respect about the movement is their authentic energy. These are not people who don't care about the world.
- Capitalism
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a capitalist. I believe in capitalism. But capitalism only works if you have safety nets to deal with people who are naturally left behind and brutalized by it.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need better neighbors, neighbors that care about the schools in their neighborhood whether they have kids in them or not, because they know that the health and vitality of that neighborhood depends on it.
- Golf
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- Nov 07, 2020
A golf course should aspire to generate as much energy as it consumes - golf should be leading the way toward energy net zero.
- Every
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- Nov 07, 2020