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Quotes About Global

Conflict of interest and lack of transparency, though they are global features as we saw post-Iraq, almost define Indian cricket.
~ Harsha Bhogle
Look at the structure of the Gates Foundation and this idea that, rather than trying to solve these huge global problems through institutions with some kind of democracy and transparency baked into them, we're just going to outsource it to benevolent billionaires.
~ Naomi Klein
In a global arena, what our businessmen need in order to be competitive is transparency and a level playing-field.
~ Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
Citadel is a global technology leader, recognized for its work to level the playing field for investors and make markets more fair, transparent and efficient. I look forward to leading this exemplary team as we grow this global business.
~ B. Kevin Turner
Using cold facts and figures, leaders throughout the West must become more transparent with their citizens in explaining their decisions and their choices in global markets.
~ Victor Ponta
People everywhere in the world have Russian connections. There is nothing wrong with having Russian connections as long as you're transparent about it.
~ Kersti Kaljulaid
When you go and meet people in far-flung parts of the world who need help, they're not earnest; they're having a laugh and a joke as they transport the water you're buying for them - not trudging around saying serious things.
~ Hugh Dennis
Uber is a company that is redefining the transportation industry on a global basis; to be part of that story is something that is interesting and would be a real privilege.
~ Dara Khosrowshahi
Dubai makes perfect sense for Hyperloop One because this is the 21st century's global transport hub, and its leaders understand that Hyperloop One is ushering in the next era of transportation.
~ Shervin Pishevar
The Hyperloop One Global Challenge started as a call to action for innovators, engineers, trailblazers, and dreamers around the world who shared our vision of creating a new mode of transportation. The Global Challenge became a movement of thousands of people from more than 100 countries over six continents.
~ Shervin Pishevar
A global system that links 2.2. billion people across hundreds of countries, allows every user to post content indiscriminately, develops algorithms that favor highly charged content, and is dependent on a self-service advertising system that precisely target ads using massive surveillance and elaborate personal dossiers cannot be reformed at the edges.
~ Siva Vaidhyanathan
I am a citizen, not of Athens or Greece, but of the world
~ Socrates
I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
~ Socrates
I am not an Athenian or a Greek, I am a citizen of the world.
~ Socrates
I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world." [As quoted in Plutarch's Of Banishment ]
~ Socrates
If you realize that you are society. The society of the world will cross you.
~ Socrates
The Dalai Lama has said: In today's highly interdependent world, individuals and nations can no longer resolve many of their problems by themselves. We need one another. We must therefore develop a sense of universal responsibility . . . It is our collective and individual responsibility to protect and nurture the global family, to support its weaker members, and to preserve and tend to the environment in which we all live.
~ Sogyal Rinpoche
Education is the silver bullet to improve this Nation's standing worldwide... and our teachers know that.
~ Solomon Ortiz
Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize the Peace Corps as it reached its 45th anniversary on March 1, 2006.
~ Solomon Ortiz
In the nineteenth century, cholera struck the most modern, prosperous cities in the world, killing rich and poor alike, from Paris and London to New York City and New Orleans. In 1836, it felled King Charles X in Italy; in 1849, President James Polk in New Orleans; in 1893, the composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in St. Petersburg.
~ Sonia Shah
the global bonfire of fossil fuels will heighten the likelihood of pandemics on its own, in a way that is likely to be even more consequential than all of its contributing factors put together.
~ Sonia Shah
Early notice makes possible all kinds of more efficient containment and mitigation. We could prevent some epidemics and more effectively prepare to withstand others. But even if such a global surveillance system can be built, it will work only if it translates into people actually using the information to do something about it.
~ Sonia Shah
Many experts believe that a cholera-like pandemic looms. In a survey by the epidemiologist Larry Brilliant, 90 percent of epidemiologists said that a pandemic that will sicken 1 billion, kill up to 165 million, and trigger a global recession that could cost up to $3 trillion would occur sometime in the next two generations.
~ Sonia Shah
Human evolution has two steps - from being somebody to being nobody; and from being nobody to being everybody. This knowledge can bring sharing and caring throughout the world.
~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar