Quotes About Globalization

Our actors are crossing borders and now so are our stories. And that is what I saw in 'Bachaana.' The film is light and easy.

As a company, we believe in free and open borders. We feel this best facilitates the exchange of cultural values and ideas.

The 21st-century curator works in a supremely globalised reality.

It's not like I'm anti-China. I just think it's ridiculous that we allow them to do what they're doing to this country, with the manipulation of the currency, that you write about and understand, and all of the other things that they do.

To customers, it's the shirt that matters, not where it's made.

The future consists of cross specialisation; that is how university systems abroad have evolved.

Practically every smartphone, tablet, and laptop is fabricated in a Chinese factory, even if they are designed here.

For the world's four Chinese-speaking regions - Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong and mainland China - the longer the colonization, the more advanced a place is.

These days, the manufacturing is controlled by a small number of countries, primarily Taiwan and South Korea.

Taiwan has been so well developed economically. But we are underdeveloped culturally.

Imagine a doctor in Chicago doing an operation for someone in Taiwan using robotic surgery. You want the doctor to feel immediate feedback to what the robot is experiencing.

Having read the histories of other countries, I saw that expansion was everything, and that the world's surface being limited, the great object of present humanity should be to take as much of the world as it possibly could.

Education, particularly higher education, will take Africa into the mainstream of globalization.

Well, if you look at all of the cultures in America, this is a great opportunity for us to really get acquainted with the rest of the world. America is the only place you can do that, but we don't have sense enough to take advantage of that.

I've decided to take advantage of outsourcing. My next novel will be written by a couple of guys in Bangalore, India.

Although 95 percent of the world's market for products exists outside the U.S., many small firms do not have the resources and personnel to take advantage of these opportunities.

We must take care that globalization does not become something people become afraid of.

Firstly, people take for granted that the E.U. has created the biggest economic space in the world.

I've been talking to a lot of young people, especially here in America. I let them know that the people who they're competing with for opportunities live all over the place. They're probably not in your city, state, or country; they are hungry, and they are grinding! Some of the things that a lot of us take for granted, these people don't.

The U.K. and the U.S. could not have been built today without Africa's aid. It is all the resources that were taken from Africa, including human, that built these countries today! So when they try to give back, we shouldn't be on the defensive.

The advantage of the internet is that it has taken away the charade of politics. China has heard of democracy and people know about certain concepts they wouldn't have previously.

We are living in a time in which movies such as 'Super Size Me' and 'An Inconvenient Truth' have made box-office history, and books such as 'No Logo' and my own, 'The Silent Takeover,' are bestsellers.

The Catholic Church is wealthier than Coca-Cola, but takes from some of the poorest people in the world.

In fact, in the original folk tale, Aladdin was actually of Chinese descent. So what we wanted to do with this was represent as many different cultures from that part of the world as possible.