Quotes About Globalization

The beauty of Twitter is that more and more people are flocking to it because it's shrinking their world.

A fundamental new rule for business is that the Internet changes everything.

America is not a country, it's a business.

I believe that if we had would keep our dirty, bloody, dollar-crooked fingers out of the business of these nations so full of depressed, exploited people, they will arrive at a solution of their own.

The raw fact is that every successful example of economic development this past century ... has taken place via globalization.

International business may conduct its operations with scraps of paper, but the ink it uses is human blood.

We've believed for 50 years that the Japanese are small Americans who wanted to be like us. They are not.

[People] are tired of being ripped off by every single country that does business with us. Whether it's China, Japan, Mexico, Vietnam.

What business could be mature when you have economies with more than 2 billion people in India, China and Southeast Asia?

It doesn't worry me a bit that China and Japan hold so much US debt. In a way, it seems foolish for them to do it because they get lower returns than they might elsewhere. But that is their business.

The whole world knows we have it made in America . . . made in China made in Mexico made in Japan.

I bought a new Japanese car, I turned on the radio ... I don't understand a word they're saying.

In my view the greatest evil in the world today is ever-increasing power and wealth in ever-fewer hands," says Visa founder Dee Hock.

A port city relies on its relationship to elsewhere.

You're a function of an impersonal cultural totality.

As a tourist, you become economically significant but existentially loathsome

The Republican Party was built on a coalition of the nation's biggest winners from globalization and its biggest losers. The winners wrote the policy; the losers provided the votes.

Neoliberalization has meant ,in short,the financialization of everything.There was unquestionably a power shift away from production to the world of finance.

The assumption that individual freedoms are guaranteed by freedom of the market and of trade is a cardinal feature of neoliberal thinking, and it has long dominated the US stance towards the rest of the world.

We can't, it seems, live without [capitalism] even as we complain about it.

If you put enough closets together, you have enough space for a room. If you put enough rooms together, you have enough room for a house. If you put enough houses together, you have space for a town, then a city, then a nation, then a world.

If you put enough closets together, you have enough space for a room. If you put enough rooms together, you have enough space for a house. If you put enough houses together, you have space for a town, then a city, then a nation, then a world.

If you put enough closets together, you have enough space for a room. If you put enough rooms together, you have space for a house. If you put enough houses together, you have space for a town, then a city, then a nation, then a world.

As a result, by the early twentieth century, large Jewish concentrations could be found in cities across the globe, including Baghdad (one-third of the population), Salonika (50 percent), Warsaw, ?ód?, Budapest, Vienna, Berlin, Paris, London, New York, and Buenos Aires. Indeed, 25 percent of the world's Jewish population lived in a mere fourteen