Quote from Stephen Levine

"If you had an hour to live and could make just one call, who would it be to—and what would you say—and why are you waiting?"

What I took from "The World Is Flat "

So I finished the popular "The World Is Flat" book by Friedman a few months ago. I try to take notes and jot down the interesting things from the book (so I don't forget it). And instead of piling up sheets of paper, I type all those ideas up here:

• Bin Laden is to the Arab masses what O.J. was to many American blacks—the stick they poke in the eye of an unfair America and their own leaders.
• HUMILIATION MAKES PEOPLE DO NASTY THINGS
• Dyab Abou Jahjah - the "Malcolm X" of Belgium's alienated Moroccan youth
• Salman Rushdie - The Satanic Verses
• 16 of the 20 most polluted cities in the world are in China. Approximately 1,000 cars are being added EACH DAY in Beijing.
• China's foreign policy consists of 2 things: preventing Taiwan from becoming independent and searching for oil.
• On an average day, Dell sells an average of 140,000 - 150,000 computers.
• "Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe" by Graham Allison
• A challenge to our will and convictions, not our capabilities. It can be done!
• MEGALOMANIACAL
• "Imagination is more important than knowledge" - Albert Einstein
• "On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog"
• David Needelman - founder of JetBlue Airways
• Apropos(?)
• Do you have more memories than dreams or more dreams than memories? (Look forward)
• The country with the largest Muslim population in the world is Indonesia. 2nd Largest - India.
• RESEARCH: Lenin, Mussolini, Polpot, Ho Chi Minh, Marxism, Arun Sarin
• If you don't have goals, you keep on running from one side to the other on the field without scoring any goals.
• the BEST companies outsource to win, not to shrink. They outsource to innovate faster and more cheaply in order to grow larger, gain market share, and hire more and different specialists - not to save money by firing more people.
• Today, my first management job out of B-school could be melding the specialties of a knowledge team that is 1/3 in India, 1/3 in China, and 1/6 in Palo Alto and Boston. That takes a very special kind of skill and is going to be much in demand in the flat world.

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