Flat World Quotes

You couldn't advance in a finance department in this country unless you thought that the world was flat.

No, most of our political elite has not realized that the world is flat.

Basically, I'm working on global domination. I plan to have members globally. What I'm looking to do is expand in a way that allows us to provide more access and take advantage of the sort of 'world is flat' technology platform, where it doesn't matter where you're located.

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?

I was in Bangalore, India, the Silicon Valley of India, when I realized that the world was flat.

When I first played the guitar without plugging it into an amplifier, the people at Fender were blown away. They couldn't believe the sound. I said, 'See, gentlemen, the world is no longer flat.'

I saw in a blue haze all the world poured flat and pale between the mountains

Many in the modern world fell for the myth that we're living in a static, fixed, flat reality of just material things.

Yes, the world is now flat for publishing as well.

I think miracles exist in part as gifts and in part as clues that there is something beyond the flat world we see.

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.

For the future world-trading regime to mirror economic reality and to allow the use of modern business strategies, we need a single overarching multilateral framework for trade. We can have either a flat world or a patchwork of crisscrossing mountain ranges and tunnels.