Quotes About Globalization

Even outside the EEC, global trade grew as new multilateral organizations like the General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs pushed for lower import tariffs across the world. The IMF helped, monitoring exchange rates so that no country attempted to get an undue advantage from the increased openness by depreciating its exchange rate and exporting more—the "beggar-thy-neighbor" strategy that was much feared during the Great Depression.

Why are poorer developing countries like China financing the unsustainable consumption of rich countries like the United States?

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Shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely a hundred people, and here are the ratios. There would be fifty-seven Asians, twenty-one Europeans, seven South Americans, nine Africans and eight from the U.S. Seventy of those people would be non-Christian, eighty would live below the poverty level and half the world's wealth would be in the hands of only six people, all citizens of the United States. And only two of those hundred people would own a computer.

Competitiveness is really what it costs you per man-hour to get you what you want. In other words, there's an education level that plays into the mix and so if it's inexpensive to buy an hour of real good education in places like China versus the U.S., that factors in.

De los libros que ella me dio a leer mientras trataba de instruirme saqué la conclusión de que no hay cosas muy distintas en ningún lugar del mundo y que por eso la gente se viste de colores diferentes y canta canciones distintas para soñar por un segundo que algo distintos son.

If it were up to me, every job would be somewhere in Canada.

Capitalism may have all sorts of things that are good, but ultimately, it's bad for everyone.

There are no two countries with the same style of economic mechanism, with the same capitalism.

I am a child of the 21st century.

Going from having an Atari to a laptop changed everything. It allows me to work anywhere I want and send my work home - I can work anywhere in the world.

The U.S. is excellent at importing cheap products from the rest of the world. Let's try importing some human capital instead.

We are happy to get great technology from anywhere, and we have eyes and ears that are checking out companies all over.

Liberal Democrats cherish freedom of movement.

There are 1.3 billion people in China, and they all want a Buick.

China is crippling our manufacturing economy and eliminating our jobs by illegally flooding our markets.

It seems pretty clear that the Internet has an important economic role to play for China as it reaches out to the rest of the world.

If you want to have traction in China, you have to be in China.

If you are only big in China, you are only a local Chinese company.

The Chinese are no slouches when it comes to capitalism.

The Chinese are saving like mad, but they are not getting a very good return on their savings.

I love being part of the Chinese scene as a businessman. That doesn't mean that there aren't short-term discomforts and adjustments.

It's going to be impossible in the 21st century for anyone to think about anything without a Chinese aspect.

We want to make sure that we have the right products for Chinese people.