Quotes About Globalization

All of our competitors around the world, every country is investing more in infrastructure as a percentage of their GDP than we are. And down the road our children and grandchildren will have to compete with that more and more.

Looks is a matter of perception. At Cannes, Europeans think I am good looking, while in India, I am not.

Mobile technology makes us ever more mobile, increasingly permitting not just easier movement around a home base but permanent international relocation.

From this point onwards history becomes an organic whole: the affairs of Italy and of Africa are connected with those of Asia and of Greece, and all events bear a relationship and contribute to a single end.

Money alone sets all the world in motion.

It is no longer possible to be exotic.

The point is that racism is the product of tribalism and ignorance and both are falling victim to communications and world-around literacy

Conséquence : il y avait, en 1919, une civilisation européenne, avec pour variante une culture américaine. Il y a, en 2017, une civilisation américaine, dont les cultures européennes semblent, avec toute leur diversité, au mieux, des variables d'ajustement, au pire, des réserves indigènes.

The tendency in modern civilization is to make the world uniform... Let the mind be universal. The individual should not be sacrifice

zaman modern telah membawa geografi bumi ke dekat kita,tetapi membuat kita kesulitan untuk saling berhubungan dengan manusia

The modern age has brought the geography of the earth near to us, but made it difficult for us to come into touch with man

Today, our world is more interconnected than ever. This offers many opportunities; it creates wealth and new freedoms. Yet our world is also vulnerable, full of friction points and conflicts of interest.

NAFTA recognizes the reality of today's economy - globalization and technology. Our future is not in competing at the low-level wage job; it is in creating high-wage, new technology jobs based on our skills and our productivity.

In our modern world of interdependent nations, hardly any state can wage war successfully without raising loans and buying war materials of every kind in the markets of other nations.

An increase in the relative price of products from the low wage manufacturers in Asia and Latin America will also make those products less attractive to American consumers.

It's tough to figure out how do we compete in Europe and North America, when obviously a living wage for us is very different than a living wage in Indonesia.

In a perfect world, people don't have to move to another country to get a higher wage. Ultimately, they need only be able to participate in producing output that is sold internationally.

My own experience in the third world was that even if people started to make more money, the cost of living and housing increased often faster than the wages.

The bottom line is there are lots of problems that were not created by government. The biggest one is loss of middle class incomes, loss of good-paying jobs which was created by technology and globalization. Above all, when you can move a job to China or India, it reduces wages.

For a long time many believed that there would be an automatic adjustment and counted on a rapid increase in the wages of the emerging nations, on our advances in technology and the costs of transport preventing disruption. But this reassuring analysis is out of date.

The advantages of globalization are actually much like the advantages of technological improvement. They have very similar effects: they raise output in countries, raise productivity, create more jobs, raise wages, and lower prices of products in the world economy.

Corporations are driving down wages and working conditions across the globe to maximize returns for their shareholders. They use their power and influence to ensure the rules align with their interests - no matter the cost.

Nafta has been responsible for a race to the bottom in standards across North America, with working conditions declining along with wages.

Since NAFTA was put in place, Mexico has lost 1.9 million jobs and most Mexicans' real wages have fallen.