Quotes About Globalization

Football is about as popular as it can be in the U.S. The upside, the expansion and growth lies overseas.

Globalization is exposing new fault lines - between urban and rural communities, for example.

We're creating these massive urban areas in the Third World. It's like you take the entire population of California and put it in one city. Then you remove basic sanitation and medical services, and you have a ticking biological time bomb.

Being master of Urdu doesn't interest me, being part of the global society does, breathing hope into that society matters to me.

The more underdeveloped the country the more overdeveloped the women.

We will work our hardest to make sure SS501 is an Asian and Worldwide Star .

I don't care where I work. Films are an international business - not an American institution.

I would say that in 2000, we understand as much about how today's system of globalization is going to work as we understood about how the Cold War system was going to work in 1946.

Technology enables us to work every minute of every day from any place on the planet.

What works for Germany can't work for the rest of Europe: No country can run a chronic surplus without others running deficits.

I think I'm a global citizen. My parents came from China, were educated in France and emigrated to the United States. And I think that opened up my mind to be able to live and work anywhere.

Success and failure in our own national economy will hang upon the degree to which we are able to work with races and nations whose social order and whose behavior and attitudes are strange to us.

It created a global platform that allowed more people to plug and play, collaborate and compete, share knowledge and share work, than anything we have ever seen in the history of the world.

Being and working in America, it's very important to work hard, work smart and work in a certain way. France and Europe has, with the tradition and culture, it's slow-moving and it's not always good.

I have to give a lot of credit to David Stern to open up the league, but also in my case, Jerry West and Dr. Buss that had the vision of international guys making it to the NBA.

Why does an iPhone cost only a couple hundred dollars? Because, as the stage performer Mike Daisey depicted in an arresting one-man show called 'The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs,' Apple's shiniest products are made by a shadowy company in China called Foxconn.

Europe should stick to an open economy, to competition and we should refuse protectionism. It will not save one single job in the long run to protect non-competitive industries.

We are living in a globalised world and most of us are worried stiff about powerful interest groups steadily pushing India towards obscurantist and fundamentalist beliefs and regressive economic policies.

Our employers today face numerous challenges and stiff competition from businesses all over the world.

What we should do is promote trade in the world, not try to stifle it.

American and Italian women stimulate designers to do new things.

But the world is ever more interdependent. Stock markets and economies rise and fall together. Confidence is the key to prosperity. Insecurity spreads like contagion. So people crave stability and order.

Most people are under exposed to global assets, including foreign stocks, bonds and currencies.

From logos to software - you name it, the Chinese have stolen it - and they'll keep stealing it, if left unchecked.