Quotes About Globalization

Just because it tastes good in Hong Kong, it doesn't necessarily translate elsewhere.

What works in the States doesn't easily translate to the Korean market.

Many of the books I read, I had to read them in French, English, or Italian, because they hadn't been translated into Spanish.

Present-day Spain translates as many books into Spanish, annually, as the Arab world has translated into Arabic in the past 1,100 years.

China approaches fashion with strong enthusiasm. And I believe that this enthusiasm can be translated into something interesting, economically speaking. Not only for my brand, but also for other brands.

Machine translation of signs, text, and speech brings down language barriers and facilitates ever more cross-cultural meetings of like minds.

Chinese readers are buying books in translation, particularly non-fiction about China, in large numbers.

During the 20th century, Chechnya was written about by local poets and novelists, as well as writers from Russia and Central Asia, but very little is available in English translation.

The English book world is relatively closed to translation, so only a small amount of foreign language work can come in.

Transnational, gigantic industrial companies no longer operate within political systems, but rather above them.

We're in a 21st century, transparent and connected world.

Lots of businesses built in the early 1990s were not very transparent, not only by Russians, but also by foreigners.

The growth of means of transport has created a world market and an opportunity for division of labor embracing all the developed and most of the undeveloped states.

Modern techniques have torn down state frontiers, both economical and intellectual. The growth of means of transport has created a world market and an opportunity for division of labor embracing all the developed and most of the undeveloped states.

Before containers, transport costs ate up 25 percent of the value of whatever was being shipped.

un jour contraints de consommer un monde dans le quel nous aurons été absents pendant trop longtemps

Why do Japanese commandos fire Czech machine guns at Puerto Rican passengers departing an Air France flight in an Israeli airport? To strike at American Imperialism!" p. 155, footnote 13

L'unicità diventa ogni giorno più preziosa in questo nostro mondo che irrimediabilmente va facendosi sempre più uniforme.

My own answer to the contrarian question is that most people think the future of the world will be defined by globalization, but the truth is that technology matters more.

But maybe the next Seattle will be both nowhere and everywhere—maybe it will be on the Internet.

didn't think it was possible to be more than a mile from a Starbucks at any given point in the county, maybe even the world.

There's always a Starbucks around.

Mass media swamps diversity. It makes every place the same. Bangkok or Tokyo or London: there's a McDonald's on one corner, a Benetton on another, a Gap across the street. Regional differences vanish. All differences vanish. In a mass-media world, there's less of everything except the top ten books, records, movies, ideas.

Free trade is meaningless unless there is also fair trade.