Quotes About Globalization

Currently we don't have plans on conquering the world.

Stupid National Anthem... Look at this flag; Two bears fighting over a pineapple. What kind of message does that send to the world? "Come to Belarus, where wild animals will steal your fruit."

I'm a firm believer that all sports will eventually be global. Someday, we may have a quarterback from China named Yao Fling.

It's funny now how much we look at - whatever you want to call it: art, design, culture stuff, film - online, and how in the online world, you're instantly global.

Japan is, you often feel, an improved version of the United States.

There is nothing more American than buying a Japanese car on the 4th of July

Geography is the subject which holds the key to our future

Today and over the foreseeable future,traditional capitalism throughout most of the world has been thrown on a defensive from which it is doubtful that it can never recover.

Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.

You live in the age of interdependence. Borders don't count for much or stop much, good or bad, anymore.

You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance, Germany doesn't want to go to war, and the three most powerful men in America are named 'Bush', 'di..', and 'Colon'.

I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.

God made everything that has life. And the rest is made in China.

I mean, we've built a lot of products that we think are good, and will help people share photos and share videos and write messages to each other. But it's really all about how people are spreading Facebook around the world in all these different countries. And that's what's so amazing about the scale that it's at today.

The new electronic independence re-creates the world in the image of a global village.

W rezultacie subsydia prze?o?y?y si? na liczby, o których zrobi?o si? g?o?no. Catholic Agency for Overseas Development, CAFOD, Katolicka Agencja na rzecz Rozwoju, przeprowadzi?a w 2002 roku analiz?, która wykaza?a, ?e jedna krowa europejska otrzymuje od Unii oko?o 2,2 dolara na dzie? - 800 rocznie. Czyli ka?da z tych krów by?a bogatsza ni? 3,5 miliarda ludzi, po?owa ludno?ci ?wiata.

To finance this trade deficit, the U.S. has to borrow from the rest of the world or sell American assets like stocks, businesses, and real estate to the rest of the world.

Por definición, los Estados son monopólicos, pero recursos tales como personas, ideas, tecnologías y capitales se trasladan de una jurisdicción a otra, generando condiciones de una cierta competencia, donde la jurisdicción que posea buenas instituciones atraerá recursos, mientras que la que no las tenga los expulsará.

Westerners who've never traveled abroad don't realize the extent to which American movies and actors, and Hollywood imagery, dominate overseas cinemas and markets.

Across many parts of the Western world, salt and pepper shakers take up a prominent space on kitchen and dining room tables. As everyone knows, most are uniform in appearance: three pinprick holes on the saltshaker, and a single one atop the pepper. If you live in Asia, however, the number of holes is reversed, with three on the pepper shaker and one on the saltshaker, thanks to the popularity of pepper in Asian countries and the cultural preference for soy sauce. This

The global village will have its village idiots and they'll have global range.

Human evolution has ceased because in the modern world, no one is really isolated from the rest of humanity.

My idea is entirely different. I think we should mix all the species together and scatter them worldwide, completely doing away with their uneven distribution. This would give nature a full palette to work with as it establishes a new balance given the current conditions. I call this the Second Genesis.

When I first traveled around the globe, it took over a year, on a boat full of men, who were lucky if they made it. Now, the world is just there. All of it. In an hour I will be on a flight to Sydney, and by lunchtime I will have arrived. It makes me feel claustrophobic, as if the world is literally shrinking, like a balloon losing air.