Thomas P.M. Barnett quotes

Women waited 144 years before earning suffrage. If a mature, multiparty democracy was so darn easy, everybody would have one. (Thomas P.M. Barnett)
We need to remind ourselves that our ultimate goal is not to reduce greenhouse gases or global warming per se but to improve the quality of life and the environment. We all want to leave the planet in decent shape for our kids. Radically reducing greenhouse gas emissions is not necessarily the best way to achieve that. View quote
Thomas P.M. Barnett
The most important thing you need to know about the Pentagon is that it is not in charge of today's wars but rather tomorrow's wars. View quote
Thomas P.M. Barnett
China's headlong rush to industrialize was pursued with the most Marxist of prejudices - bending nature to man's will. That's a desperately hard trick to pull off when one fifth of humanity, having previously subsisted on 7 percent of the world's freshwater supply, decides that it wants to instantaneously increase its caloric intake. View quote
Thomas P.M. Barnett
In the end, for all of Obama's grand rhetoric on ridding the world of nuclear weapons, history has doomed him to preside over the emergence of two rogue nuclear regimes (North Korea and Iran). View quote
Thomas P.M. Barnett
Great powers reserve the right to police bad actors in their neighborhoods. View quote
Thomas P.M. Barnett
Transnational terrorism, in the form of the Salafi Jihadist movement, is fundamentally a function of globalization. View quote
Thomas P.M. Barnett
Run with what works: Sell to the people who believe in you and are willing to take the chances and make the experience happen. View quote
Thomas P.M. Barnett
You can't drag people from understanding to action. A customer isn't actually at the last mile if you're the one dragging her to the finish line. View quote
Thomas P.M. Barnett
Wikistrat is my ninth start-up, so I've been through this process a few times. You have to go with what works. The power of example is compelling, so model the ideas that you want someone to understand. View quote
Thomas P.M. Barnett
If you can get out in front of people with your ideas and your execution, you'll attract the people who need to be pulled in. (Thomas P.M. Barnett)