Quotes About Globalization

A traveler can meet a man born in Poland, brought up in the Soviet Union, who now lives in Belarus – and he has never left his village.

Russians are trying to figure out who they are and where they fit into the world.

Mormons would like to cut back on American missionaries and rely more on Russians.

thirty-thousand-dollar face-lift in the West is perhaps two thousand dollars in Russia

Of the world's 175 largest nation-states and private firms, 112 are corporations.

Une autre fois, sa stupéfaction a été sans bornes, de me voir parler anglais avec un auto-stoppeur qu'un client avait pris dans son camion. Que j'aie appris une langue étrangère en classe, sans aller dans le pays, le laissait incrédule.

You British plundered half the world for your own profit. Let's not pass it off as the Age of Enlightenment.

We have to choose between a global market driven only by calculations of short-term profit, and one which has a human face.

So we really need jobs now. We have to take jobs away from other countries because other countries are taking our jobs. There is practically not a country that does business with the United States that isn't making - let's call it a very big profit. I mean China is going to make $300 billion on us at least this year.

Amsterdam must have more than a million people. But the only area where jazz is really profitable and successful in an economic sense is in Japan. That's because they haven't been exposed enough.

But in the past, US companies have been able to increase their profits through downsizing in the US, through colonizing other people's resources, and through the increase of globalization.

Back when Detroit was the head of auto manufacturing, it was clear where profits were created. Right? A car was made in Detroit. There was little argument that you could make that some of the money from that should be sent overseas to Ireland.

Indeed, American companies make three times as much profits from their investment in one E.U. country, Ireland, than they do from all their investments in China.

When you have countries that have a lot of minerals and diamonds and oil and are in business with companies from all over the world - but these companies don't share, really, their profits - this is called post-post-colonial.

Socialized medicine allows a nation to exclude a U.S. product from its market if the U.S. firm does not make generous enough price concessions. Accordingly, what has developed is a system within which U.S. firms make large profits on new drugs in the U.S. market, but very low profits on sales everywhere else.

The profound lack of economic opportunity for those left behind by globalization has created an ever-widening gap between the 'haves' and the 'have nots.'

In the early 1990s, when a lot of the developing world opened up to international capital flows... they ended up in very good long-term projects, but projects that weren't going to pay off for five or 10 or 20 years.

Except for the projects in Israel, my being Israeli has contributed negatively to my global activity. It is hard for me, for example, to get projects in the Persian Gulf emirates.

Tariffs have almost never saved a domestic industry from decline and, often times, by sheltering domestic producers from competition, only reward and prolong bad business practices.

As we work to promote greater economic opportunity for the American people, we must always remember that the American economy is deeply integrated with the global economy. That brings challenges but even greater opportunities.

I am not sure if India is the right place to promote such music. I don't think there are still enough people who listen to English songs.

It's amazing how many countries run their embassies as commercial outposts to promote businessmen from their country.

I promoted Hyderabad to the world by saying that there was privacy in India and their data will be sage. Data is wealth.

It's very clear that TPP was promoted by corporate interests, it was driven by ideology, not by economic science. And when they started looking at the net trade benefits, they are miniscule.