Quotes About Globalization

Don't run scared to another country. They aren't better. They are, for the most part, far worse.

Technology, outsourcing, a growing temp staffing industry, productivity efficiencies—these have all replaced the middle class.

lands have been robbed of the minerals, for example, which go into the building of railways and telegraph wires and TV sets and jet airliners and guns and bombs and fleets, must attempt, at exorbitant cost, to buy their manufactured resources back—which is not even remotely possible, since they must attempt this purchase with money borrowed from their exploiters.

Core ideology provides the glue that holds an organization together as it grows, decentralizes, diversifies, expands globally, and develops workplace diversity. Think of it as analogous to the principles of Judaism that held the Jewish people together for centuries without a homeland, even as they spread throughout the Diaspora.

Let's compete freely. Goddam tariffs! Free trade and free seas—that's what's right!

What English speakers call "computer science" Europeans have known as informatique, informatica, and Informatik

Quite a few people feel uncomfortable when faced with the claim that the Jews are the world's smartest people. In our politically correct era, one is not expected to argue that one group within humanity has an advantage over all the others.

Xenophobia is defined as the uncontrollable fear of foreigners. That fear should not dictate the immigration dialogue any longer.

It is easy to underestimate in advance the impact of globalization and automation - I have done it myself.

It turns out that the greatly underestimated downside of technological progress is a fractured world.

For years, we have underestimated the challenges of mass immigration.

One thing that is not to be underestimated is American culture's influence on the rest of the world.

The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had.

In this age of growing interconnectedness, we understand that turning our backs on the world is simply not an option.

Friends from the press, China needs to learn more about the world, and the world also needs to learn more about China. I hope you will continue to make more efforts and contributions to deepening the mutual understanding between China and the countries of the world.

A part of growing up in this international world is understanding and being prepared and having tools to adapt outside of the small environment that you may have come from. That's what education is all about.

Overcoming the myth that there is such a thing as an objectively defined 'free market' is the first step towards understanding capitalism.

England understands good Chinese, Japanese and Indian cuisine; in France, we just get French.

In many regions, war and terror prevail. States disintegrate. For many years, we have read about this. We have heard about it. We have seen it on TV. But we had not yet sufficiently understood that what happens in Aleppo and Mosul can affect Essen or Stuttgart. We have to face that now.

Where previously the international underworld was a world of local, often-warring mafia territories, it has become globalised. The criminal has become corporate, and the corporate has become criminal. Organised crime has become very organised indeed.

Look at 'Avatar:' the foreign ticket sales were over twice the domestic returns. The mind boggles at those kinds of numbers, but that's what you get when you effectively reach out to a global audience. If that kind of thing came to comics, it would undoubtedly change how people perceive the mainstream industry.

Having common European standards has not only boosted prosperity here and across the continent, it is undoubtedly the best way of managing the challenges posed by globalisation.

Our people are unemployed and anxious to work for the food which foreigners can give us.

Globalization creates economic policies where the transnationals lord over us, and the result is misery and unemployment.