Quotes About Globalization

The seat of power in the twenty-first century is information, not oil or geography.

They did not understand that by liberalizing imports, the government was also promoting exports.

You used to be able to tell a person's nationality by the face. Immigration ended that. Next you discerned nationality via the footwear. Globalization ended that.

You used to be able to tell a person's nationality by the face. Immigration ended that. Next you discerned nationality via the footwear. Globalization ended that. Those Finnish seal puppies, those German flounders - you don't see them much anymore. Only Nikes, on Basque, on Dutch, on Siberian feet.

Antes era possível, em geral, dizer a nacionalidade da pessoa pela cara. A imigração acabou com isso. Depois ainda dava para descobrir a nacionalidade pelos sapatos. A globalização acabou com isso.

You used to be able to tell a person's nationality by the face. Immigration ended that. Next you discerned nationality via the footwear. Globalization ended that. Those Finnish seal puppies, those German flounders—you don't see them much anymore. Only Nikes, on Basque, on Dutch, on Siberian feet.

Why would you want to spend your money to go to countries where the people are so poor that they'd do anything to come over here?

Id love to work in the States; Id love to work anywhere where you get a good script and a good part to play. But I do love British film as well.

We understand that in this globalized world we all need to work together. As the Pope says in his encyclical, "Laudato Si," the Earth is our common home.

I like the idea of an open, international London that thrives on attracting hard-working, talented people but has the confidence to tell them they must play by the same rules as everyone else.

The young generation of today is globally connected. They want to live in an equitable and efficient India. We have to be ready for this, and work for this.

The globally constituted accident can be compared to what people who work at the stock exchange call 'systemic risk'.

Basically, people in other countries don't want to have to work quite as flat-out as they do in Japan.

Koreans stuck to their traditional way of life without knowing what was going on outside the country. We were like frogs in a well.

I was born in Beijing and raised in England and America. I studied political science in college and film in graduate school in New York.

I'm a Muslim Egyptian-American, born in Cairo. I grew up in Kuwait until the first Gulf War, when my family relocated to the United Arab Emirates. As an adult, I studied and lived in the U.K. before moving to Boston.

When I see a lot of the big Hollywood movies, I see they are all financed by Indian studios.

Math and science fields are not the only areas where we see the United States lagging behind. Less than 1 percent of American high school students study the critical foreign languages of Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean or Russian, combined.

Real cultural diversity results from the interchange of ideas, products, and influences, not from the insular development of a single national style.

While never the darling of pure free traders, measures to combat dumping, subsidies, and injurious import surges have always been deemed essential by open economies like the United States to maintain support for trade.

It was good to launch the economy in the '50s. Japan did this; China did this; even South Korea did this. All the East Asians did this - import substitution. I think all countries followed import substitution in the '50s and in the '60s, but I think by the '70s, countries were getting out of that first phase of the strategy.

As we were all growing up, there used to be a very big mantra in India which was called 'export or perish.' There was a long period when we used to focus on import substitution.

Leaving the E.U. will enable the U.K. to undertake a major campaign for import substitution.

People will now go to films with subtitles, you know. They're not afraid of them. It's one of the upsides of text-messaging and e-mail. Maybe the only good thing to come of it.