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Quotes About Globalization

Lest those islands still seem to you too remote in space and time to be relevant to our modern societies, just think about the risks... of our increasing globalization and increasing worldwide economic interdependence.
~ Jared Diamond
That's why this generation is the least racist generation ever. You see it all the time. Go to any club. People are intermingling, hanging out, having fun, enjoying the same music. Hip-hop is not just in the Bronx anymore. It's worldwide. Everywhere you go, people are listening to hip-hop and partying together. Hip-hop has done that.
~ Jay-Z
Concepts like edX and online learning will transform education. This will completely change the world. I believe that people will move to online learning, both on campuses and worldwide. We have a real opportunity to be able to bring people around the world into our fold.
~ Anant Agarwal
In the next decade, I see Spanx going worldwide. Everywhere. No butt left behind. It's going to be all over the world and it's going to be an aspirational brand that transcends categories. There's so many things we can improve upon and make better.
~ Sara Blakely
Today we stand on a bridge leading from the territorial state to the world community. Politically, we are still governed by the concept of the territorial state; economically and technically, we live under the auspices of worldwide communications and worldwide markets.
~ Christian Lous Lange
Protectionism has never been an answer, will never be an answer. We need trade. We need trade agreements worldwide.
~ Frans Timmermans
Will Smith would not be Worldwide Will Smith if he had not insisted on going worldwide and touring with his films. You have to build that audience for people and allow for it to happen.
~ Octavia Spencer
I really chess-play culture shifts. I'm really good at understanding what worldwide cell-phone use means. That's what I do. I try to picture it three to four to five steps ahead.
~ Gary Vaynerchuk
Since the web is totally worldwide, we need a set of behavioural rules, laws they are commonly called, that are accepted worldwide. There is a big difference as to how things are treated in the U.S. and Europe and Asia.
~ Robert Cailliau
An Australian girl size 12 and a Swedish girl size 12 are completely different, just because of the way they're formed. It's becoming this worldwide movement because people are getting it. We all have two different parents; we're not supposed to look the same. It's ridiculous.
~ Hayley Hasselhoff
A worldwide web of electronic connections now moves data at ever-increasing speed and volume along what we call the information superhighway.
~ Joseph B. Wirthlin
Unlike films, which can be easily disseminated worldwide via DVDs and the Internet, plays struggle to find an international audience.
~ Katori Hall
In an era of global value chains, worldwide sourcing and the never-ending search for new markets, we must be careful to avoid the proliferation of regional standards. A multilateral approach holds wider benefits for more actors.
~ Roberto Azevedo
It would be just as pointless to oppose the international use of English today as it would have been to oppose the worldwide use of French in the 18th century.
~ Maurice Allais
Plutocrats worldwide have readily understood the advantages of evading the burdens of the nation-state.
~ Chrystia Freeland
The only thing that kept us from going bigger worldwide was the language barrier. All the corn that we did on 'Hee Haw,' it was hard to translate into their slang.
~ Roy Clark
Sometimes I wonder how my life would have worked out if my books had been translated into English sooner, because English is the language that's spoken worldwide, and when a book appears in English it is made universal, it becomes a global publication.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
I'm looking to expand my brand everywhere. I want to be worldwide, I want to reach the world.
~ Ryan Garcia
Since we have members who have grown up abroad, we really want to introduce Blackpink to K-pop listeners worldwide.
~ Jennie
Lots are written about how 'she shows up at board meetings in the saree.' My God, I have never worn a saree to board meetings; people play it out in different ways. I think I have never shied away from the fact that I am an Indian, and I don't intend to, but you can be at home with both cultures.
~ Indra Nooyi
I am worried that young Japanese people are not very curious about the outside world - which is so different to the way we were in the Sixties and Seventies. All they want to listen to is Japanese pop. They haven't even heard of Radiohead!
~ Ryuichi Sakamoto
Six decades ago, as Mao's Communists seized power, the question in Washington was, 'Who lost China?' Now, as his capitalist descendants stand astride the world stage and Washington worries about decline, it seems to be, 'Who lost America?'
~ Eric Liu
China-led globalization in some ways worries me because they are not concerned about human rights, labor rights. They probably aren't even really concerned about competitive marketplaces. So in some ways, they're like Mr. Trump.
~ Joseph Stiglitz
What I worry about is not just Nissan, but Japanese manufacturers losing motivation to maintain production in Japan. The high yen is definitely a headwind.
~ Carlos Ghosn