Quotes About Globalization

Those who refuse to liberalise and globalise are doomed to failure.

Americans are people who prefer the Continent to their own country, but refuse to learn its languages.

Any nation that refuses to hold intercourse with other nations must expect to be excluded from this family.

We regard America and Europe as old friends. We keep old friends, but we make new friends in Japan, India, and China.

The biggest part of our business has always been moving things, not paper. With the Internet, people in Mississippi can buy things from Macedonia, without regard to time or place or quantity.

In this century, the 21st century, the U.S. recognizes our prosperity and our security depends even more on the Asia-Pacific region.

People who grow up in a region doubtless have a better cultural awareness of their own cuisine, but it's also true that a lot of locals go to McDonald's, Applebee's and the like.

We should reconsider greater integration of North America to achieve a region that is more competitive and capable of creating more jobs.

By the end of 2020, the only region of the world that will still have a lot of 2G connections may be Africa.

As our world gets more interconnected, no one country or region can meet development challenges on its own.

What I'm absolutely certain of is, every day we delay in accessing that Asia-Pacific region, the more we lose economically.

We should never seek to compete with economies in our region by cutting pay and conditions - that's a race to the bottom we can't win.

Clients are becoming more global; they're realizing that markets are more interconnected. It's no longer the local regional clients buying the local regional flavors. It's everybody asking for everything.

Earlier, people used to say no to regional films, but now people all over the world have started watching Bengali cinema.

There are no regions in the world as reciprocally integrated as Latin America and the Caribbean, and Europe.

Israel has been absent for many years from entire regions in the world.

If we have an agreement with a country like Mexico, that doesn't support or protect the rights of workers, that doesn't have the same environmental regulations, how can Canadians ever compete with that jurisdiction?

In many ways, the Internet is about diversification, and yet, in the wrong hands, the digital world can use those very examples to reinforce the narrowest of perspectives.

This idea that in America you can be anyone you want - you can reinvent yourself. Well, I think that the Internet has maybe taken that kind of American idea and has democratized it for the world.

Among immigrants today, it is increasingly fashionable to reject American exceptionalism in favor of multiculturalism. To pretend that this isn't happening isn't optimism; it's sheer fantasy.

I'm fascinated by the emergence of a global class. They're highly mobile; they reject the idea of place.

Protectionism in all its forms should be rejected, and efforts should be made to discipline measures that constitute barriers to trade.

Also, the times have changed, the Punjabi cinema is growing. Movies and songs are being made in such a manner that even a non-Punjabi can relate to them.

For 500 years, since European explorers came, Latin American countries had been separated from one another. They had very limited relations. Integration is a prerequisite for independence.