Quotes About Globalization

Where else, but from the industrialized world, did the suicide hijackers learn that the huge explosions and death above a city skyline are a peculiar and effective form of communication? They have mastered the language.

Mississippi's never going to be China.

I think there's a big misunderstanding on the value of migrants.

The 21st-century mix of jobs is probably going to be different than the 20th-century mix.

I feel like I've mixed my Middle Eastern and Western loves together.

I think Hollywood makes the mistake of mixing all these identities and cultures, mostly from the Middle East.

People in Shanghai make a lot more money than the farmers in the rice paddies. The rice-paddy farmers are not buying Louis Vuitton bags, but the upwardly mobile ones in Shanghai, who are all working in Wall Street-type firms, are infinitely better-dressed than people in the West. Their women take this fashion thing seriously.

We all know that mobile's going to change the world.

We'll look at the japanese launch as a model and aspire to have things go as well as they did over there.

Some Korean models may be seen in European Fashion Week, but it is hard to find them in New York.

I think that there is absolutely no free market in modern industrial states.

The marriage of computing and connectivity without the shackles of being tethered to a location is one of the biggest disruptive forces of modern times.

It's a modern world we live in, with everything at our fingertips, and if it's not at our fingertips, you can dot-com anything.

The question of modernization is central to disturbances in the Middle East and in Africa. Everyone is after modernization, no matter where they come from. But you have to be careful about it, and more importantly, you have to have sense about it.

As countries grapple with modernization, people who are left behind tend to hold firmer and firmer to their view of the evil of modernity.

The world, whether we like it or not, will become more and more borderless.

I don't think we should always look at the Chinese like they're taking jobs. They are also bring us more and more jobs. Because, they are the biggest growing consumer. I think what is going on in China is exciting.

Humankind is getting more and more connected.

Now, there are more and more Asian models and opportunities to understand Asian beauty.

The 21st century is significantly different from the 20th century. The old models will not hold anymore. More and more, we are one people on Earth. We need to share our problems.

I expect more people from China and Asia to end up in the NBA.

Everyone is so estranged; no one is rooted. That's what I like to write about more than anything else. Everything being so mixed up. Racially mixed up, people moving from place to place, everything shifting.

My family is from Morocco, and I was born and raised in Canada, but I'm an Indian at heart, for sure.

As an Indian company, to go outside India and motivate people, have them align to our vision, and get them excited about what an Indian company can do was a hard thing to pull off.