Globalization Quotes
Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom.
Nelson Mandela
This is a basic requirement the meaning of globalization is that we should admit that the economy of each country is dependent on the economy of all the others.
Richard Grasso
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.
John F. Kerry
For when we talk about the spreading power and influence of globalization, aren't we really referring to the spreading economic and military might of the US?
Fredric Jameson
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.
David Korten
Reliable data on the outsourcing of American jobs is sorely missing from the debate on globalization.
Dan Lipinski
We cannot wait for governments to do it all. Globalization operates on Internet time. Governments tend to be slow moving by nature, because they have to build political support for every step.
Kofi Annan
Outsourcing and globalization of manufacturing allows companies to reduce costs, benefits consumers with lower cost goods and services, causes economic expansion that reduces unemployment, and increases productivity and job creation.
Larry Elder
A lot of people, including business leaders, think the future belongs to China. Globalization is not a zero-sum game, but we need to hone our skills to stay in play.
Jon Meacham
I am not someone who believes we should build a fence around our country but I do believe there ought to be some fairness with respect to the rules of this globalization.
Byron Dorgan
The negative side to globalization is that it wipes out entire economic systems and in doing so wipes out the accompanying culture.
Peter L. Berger
People have accused me of being in favor of globalization. This is equivalent to accusing me of being in favor of the sun rising in the morning.
Clare Short
In Globalization 1.0, which began around 1492, the world went from size large to size medium. In Globalization 2.0, the era that introduced us to multinational companies, it went from size medium to size small. And then around 2000 came Globalization 3.0, in which the world went from being small to tiny.
Thomas Friedman
Globalization was a deep trend pushed by technology and right ideas, as much as anything else.
Jeffrey Sachs
We've got to demonstrate why European unity and integration, our vast single market, our single currency, equip us with the strength to embrace globalization.
Peter Mandelson
Today, the forces of competition, technology, and globalization have converged to spur innovation and to transform the way business is done in the securities industry.
Arthur Levitt
We must take care that globalization does not become something people become afraid of.
Gerhard Schroder
The 20th Century was the century of Aviation and the century of Globalization. The next century will be the century of Space.
Wilson Greatbatch
Lest those islands still seem to you too remote in space and time to be relevant to our modern societies, just think about the risks... of our increasing globalization and increasing worldwide economic interdependence.
Jared Diamond
Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world.
Jimmy Carter
In its current form, globalization cannot be sustained. Democratic societies will not support it. Authoritarian leaders will fear to impose it.
John J. Sweeney
I don't think massification and globalization and all those other 'izations' are necessarily hostile to regionalism.
John Shelton Reed
So is it always nationalist to resist US globalization? The US thinks it is, and wants you to agree; and, moreover, to consider US interests as being universal ones.
Fredric Jameson
People now realize that globalization is not only for the multi-nationals and the circulation of money.
Lakhdar Brahimi
There is a huge shift taking place in the global awareness in the last 5 years with strong views about globalization and the power structures of major corporations.
David Korten
Contagion has become very much a phenomenon, and it's a phenomenon of globalization.
Lawrence Summers