Quotes About Global

Israel is no longer a people that dwells alone, and has to join the global journey toward peace, reconciliation and international cooperation.

The communications technology that was to become the concourse and meeting of all the world, bringing the longed-for peace to all the world, becomes a weapon to break the world in pieces.

Between these two programs---the industrial and the agrarian, the global and the local---the most critical difference is that of knowledge. The global economy institutionalizes a global ignorance, in which producers and consumers cannot know or care about one another, and in which the histories of all products will be lost. In such circumstances, the degradation of products and places, producers and consumers, is inevitable.

Si los conocimientos agrícolas existentes se aplicasen en todas partes, el planeta podría alimentar al doble de su población actual.

Pentagon ought to win the Nobel Peace Prize every year, because the U.S. military is the world's foremost guarantor of peace

The world is a giant ashtray we put things into.

He's crossed all the oceans all around the world.

Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation.

She's here on Blue Ant's ticket. Relatively tiny in terms of permanent staff, globally distributed, more post-geographic than multinational, the agency has from the beginning billed itself as a high-speed, low-drag life-form in an advertising ecology of lumbering herbivores.

The massive scale of Walmart—its $444 billion revenue in 2012 amounts to $64 for every person on earth—inspires a complicated mixture of emotions: awe, fear, admiration, and loathing.

I have made many life decisions that were strictly survival-driven, but never wealth-driven. In selling to private equity, I was motivated by a desire to develop an idea, a concept, a philosophy that was solid in its foundation into a global phenomenon to elevate the world.

It's easier to put on a pair of shoes than to wrap the earth in leather.

Actualmente, el «lugar» cada vez importa menos en la fabricación: las ideas triunfan sobre la geografía.

I knew I wanted to do something at the nexus of what I call global development and technology.

the abilities to innovate, to remain flexible and adapt constantly, to set ambitious goals, to think globally, to move quickly, to take risks.

In other words, speed, innovation, and global focus happen only when lots of delegated authority sits alongside lots of centralized authority.

I know one thing: There are a billion Islamic people in the world today, and there will be about 2 billion by the time we're dead. They're not going to give up their religion.

If Facebook's fancy headquarters were to sink into the San Andreas Fault, the company might barely notice. If TSMC's fabs were to slip into the Chelungpu Fault, whose movement caused Taiwan's last big earthquake in 1999, the reverberations would shake the global economy.

China's import of chips—$260 billion in 2017, the year of Xi's Davos debut—was far larger than Saudi Arabia's export of oil or Germany's export of cars. China spends more money buying chips each year than the entire global trade in aircraft. No product is more central to international trade than semiconductors.

The market for NAND, the other main type of memory chip, is also Asia-centric. Samsung, the biggest

Disney World employs forty thousand people from all corners of the globe. They come to Orlando and work for minimum wage, and they don't care about the money. They work here because Disney makes them feel something: nostalgia, pride, love… Whatever it is, it's real, and it keeps them here for their entire lives.

As Christians who are called to love the least of these, we need to realize that poverty is not a problem, it is our problem. When we contemplate what is happening globally, we might likely agree that a large percentage of our income should be diverted immediately to care for those in greatest need. We could easily determine that 50 percent or more of our annual income should be given away.

I travel. I do a lot of traveling around the world.

The world is my country, science is my religion.