Quotes About Globalization

I don't think there is only one Arab culture or a pure Arabness. We are very multiple, especially our generation, which is very multilayered.

There is no pure free-market economy.

I am a fairly mongrelized person - you know I've been a migrant my whole life, and it's hard to think of myself as any pure one thing. And so I take it, I guess, very personally - this notion that migrants are bad and that mixing is bad and that people from other places are bad.

The Blues scene now is international. In the '50s it was purely something that you would hear in black clubs, played by black musicians, especially in America. But from the '60s onwards it changed.

We find it much better not to try and take the Godrej brand across, but use very strong brands we have acquired in different geographies and push them.

The twenty-first century will be characterized by the mass movement of people being pushed and pulled within and beyond their borders by conflict, calamity, or opportunity.

We are in a world where globalization, which is an ideology, has forgotten and put aside the people, the people's interests, aspirations, and dreams.

We have been influenced by you in the U.S. a lot. Not because anybody exerted pressure on us - if anyone puts pressure on us, we go the other way. But if you put a movie in the cinema and I watch it, I will be influenced.

Globalization, far from putting an end to power diplomacy between States, has, on the contrary, intensified it.

For people in London, Asian flavors are always part of the culture, more than in New York.

If we didn't have the Chinese buying things, we'd be on the floor.

McDonald's cannot flourish without McDonnell Douglas, the designer of the F-15.

Because it's cheaper and easier to fly than ever before, air travel is becoming democratized.

We need the Chinese to - you know, spend more, save less - consume more and not be so focused on exports. There are big changes we need in the world.

As a foreigner in London, I like that there are so many other foreigners.

I've seen foreigners really shift on their view of America, and that's hard for me to take.

Foreigners will eventually own so much of America that there will be nothing left to trade.

I grew up in China, but I live in the U.S. and I want my children to understand what's going on over there. They ask me sometimes, 'Are we Chinese or Australians?' My family are in L.A., New York and China, and they have the freedom to go back and forth, which is really, really nice.

You should never get away from where the real foundation of Formula One has been, which is Europe. Of course, there is nothing wrong with the expansion to countries like Asia, China, Malaysia.

India will not be at the center - it will be the center of this fourth technology shift.

Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.

China is trying to become America without democracy while America is trying to become France without cheese calories.

From France, you can call anywhere in the world for free. Americans can't do that!

We are in favor of free trade.