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Globalization is a fact of economic life -- Carlos Salinas de Gortari
Globalization is a fact of economic life. -- Carlos Salinas de Gortari
Globalization presumes sustained economic growth. Otherwise, the process loses its economic benefits and political support. -- Paul Samuelson
Globalization was a deep trend pushed by technology and right ideas, as much as anything else. -- Jeffrey Sachs
Globalization and free trade do spur economic growth, and they lead to lower prices on many goods. -- Robert Reich
Globalization, far from putting an end to power diplomacy between States, has, on the contrary, intensified it. -- Omar Bongo
The speed of light does not merely transform the world. It becomes the world. Globalization is the speed of light. -- Paul Virilio
In too many instances, the march to globalization has also meant the marginalization of women and girls. And that must change. -- Hillary Clinton
There is a growing consensus that Globalization must now be reshaped to reflect values broader than simply the freedom of capital. -- John Sweeney
Globalization is not a monolithic force but an evolving set of consequences - some good, some bad and some unintended. It is the new reality. -- John B. Larson
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
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
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
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
To globalize for the sake of globalizing-as a matter of ego-is perilous. Expanding internationally is hard, risky work. Globalization is not just about putting up a plant. It's not about making an acquisition. It's much, much more. -- Kumar Mangalam Birla
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
This is a very exciting time in the world of information. It`s not just that the personal computer has come along as a great tool. The whole pace of business is moving faster. Globalization is forcing companies to do things in new ways. -- Bill Gates
Globalization has produced a new of level of interdependence among us. The economy and multinational supply chains do not abide by political boundaries. A computer ordered in Brazil is designed in California and assembled in several other countries. Economic integration was the first strong evidence of a new era. -- Eduardo Paes
Globalization is the next big artworld idea -- Noel Carroll
Globalization cannot take shape without the speed of light. -- Paul Virilio
Globalization is the process by which markets integrate worldwide. -- Michael Spence
Globalization requires taking a broad contextual and long-term view. -- Helen Fisher
Globalization is incredibly efficient but also so far incredibly unjust. -- Pascal Lamy
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Globalization is a fact of life. But I believe we have underestimated its fragility -- Kofi Annan
Globalization is a fact of life. But I believe we have underestimated its fragility. -- Kofi Annan
Globalization is exposing new fault lines - between urban and rural communities, for example. -- Ban Ki-moon
Globalization means using slaves to manufacture products that are then sold to the unemployed! -- Marine Le Pen
[Globalization] has enriched the world scientifically and culturally and benefited many people economically as well. -- Amartya Sen
Globalization is a great thing, but it needs a legal framework in which to blossom. -- Loretta Napoleoni
Globalization presumes sustained economic growth. Otherwise, the process loses its economic benefits and political support -- Paul A. Samuelson
Globalization creates economic policies where the transnationals lord over us, and the result is misery and unemployment. -- Evo Morales
Globalization has made copper and other minerals more valuable, and Ghana and Kenya have recently discovered mineral resources. -- Bill Gates
Globalization exists but we shouldn't conflate globalization with trade agreements. Trade agreements is how we can shape globalization. -- Michael Froman
Globalization has rendered the world increasingly interdependent, but international politics is still based on the sovereignty of states. -- George Soros
Globalization has altered the dynamics in the White House, as well as between the White House and the Treasury. -- George W. Bush
Globalization has altered the dynamics in the White House, as well as between the White House and the Treasury -- George W. Bush
Globalization is a form of totalitarianism... It is the rich who rule, and the poor live as they can. -- Jose Saramago
Globalization is stirring widespread economic anxiety, and middle class incomes have stagnated while a class of super-rich has emerged. -- Nina Easton
Globalization looked like it was going to answer all the economic questions of class. Turned out not to be the case. -- George Packer
Globalization really is a concrete, fundamental fact in everybody's lives, and you really see that come to life in soccer stadiums. -- Franklin Foer
The 20th Century was the century of Aviation and the century of Globalization. The next century will be the century of Space. -- Wilson Greatbatch
Globalization means standardization. The very rich and the very poor must want the same things, but only the rich can have them. -- Arundhati Roy
Globalization is now no longer an objective but an imperative, as markets open and geographic barriers become increasingly blurred and even irrelevant. -- Jack Welch
Globalization doesn't have to be a bad thing as long as government provides us all with the tools to cope in a changing world. -- John B. Larson
Globalization has delivered many benefits for international donors, but it's the job of politicians to represent the people - and to put American workers first. -- Donald Trump
Globalization has enriched the planet beyond belief, leading to ever-increased demands of perfection. And thanks to 24/7 communications, we all instantaneously know when these expectations aren't met. -- Victor Davis Hanson
You used to be able to tell a person's nationality by the face. Immigration ended that. Next you discerned nationality via the footwear. Globalization ended that. -- Jeffrey Eugenides
Globalization ... is the most important change in the history of mankind, and often just the latest name for the conspiracy of the rich against the poor. -- Anita Roddick
Globalization offers us enormous opportunities in the race to leapfrog in development processes. It also obliges us to set in motion processes which would minimize its risks. -- Manmohan Singh
Globalization could be the answer to many of the world's seemingly intractable problems. But this requires strong democratic foundations based on a political will to ensure equity and justice. -- Sharan Burrow
Globalization has created this interlocking fragility. At no time in the history of the universe has the cancellation of a Christmas order in New York meant layoffs in China. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Globalization could be the answer to many of the world's seemingly intractable problems. But this requires strong democratic foundations based on a political will to ensure equity and justice -- Sharan Burrow
Globalization by the way of McDonald's and KFC has captured the hearts, the minds, and from what I can see through the window, the growing bellies of the folks here. -- Raquel Cepeda
Globalization is a complex issue, partly because economic globalization is only one part of it. Globalization is greater global closeness, and that is cultural, social, political, as well as economic. -- Amartya Sen
Globalization has changed us into a company that searches the world, not just to sell or to source, but to find intellectual capital - the world's best talents and greatest ideas -- Jack Welch
Globalization has changed us into a company that searches the world, not just to sell or to source, but to find intellectual capital - the world's best talents and greatest ideas. -- Jack Welch
Globalization has taken a hit in that there is some sand in the gears because most of us have supply chains that are all over the world that we've had to lengthen. --
As I have said many times before, the speed of light does not merely transform the world. It becomes the world. Globalization is the speed of light. And it is nothing else! -- Paul Virilio
Globalization is a fact, because of technology, because of an integrated global supply chain, because of changes in transportation. And we're not going to be able to build a wall around that. -- Barack Obama
Globalization means we have to re-examine some of our ideas, and look at ideas from other countries, from other cultures, and open ourselves to them. And that's not comfortable for the average person. -- Herbie Hancock
I mean, you hear the word 'globalization' over and over and over again. Globalization, globalization, globalization. Rarely has a word gone so directly from obscurity to meaninglessness without any intervening period of coherence. -- Robert Reich
Globalization was supposed to break down barriers between continents and bring all peoples together. But what kind of globalization do we have with over one billion people on the planet not having safe water to drink? -- Mikhail Gorbachev
Globalization - and I think we share this conviction - is that globalization needs to be shaped politically, it needs to be given a human face, but we cannot allow to fall back into plagued globalization times. -- Angela Merkel
Globalization combined with technology, combined with social media and constant information, have disrupted people's lives sometimes in very concrete ways; a manufacturing plant closes and suddenly an entire town no longer has what was the primary source of employment. -- Barack Obama
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
Globalization and the neoliberal economic model have already been rejected in Latin America; it simply hasn't been a solution for our people. At the same time, Latin countries like Venezuela and Argentina are anti-imperialist and anti-globalization, and yet their economies are growing again. -- Evo Morales
This is a very exciting time in the world of information. It's not just that the personal computer has come along as a great tool. The whole pace of business is moving faster. Globalization is forcing companies to do things in new ways -- Bill Gates
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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
Globalization, which attempts to amalgamate every local, regional, and national economy into a single world system, requires homogenizing locally adapted forms of agriculture, replacing them with an industrial system-centrally managed, pesticide-intensive, one-crop production for export-designed to deliver a narrow range of transportable foods to the world market. -- Helena Norberg-Hodge
Globalization has not only lost its promise but is embittering many. The forces representing human solidarity and community have no choice but to step in quickly to convince the disenchanted masses that, as the banner of the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre proclaims, 'Another world is possible!' -- Walden Bello
Greed and globalization aren't just America's fault. -- Arlo Guthrie
Education, particularly higher education, will take Africa into the mainstream of globalization. -- John Agyekum Kufuor
We have benefited greatly from the globalization of the economy in the last 30 years. -- Phil Gramm
Russia should support globalization. The Internet can develop in Russia in a very speedy way. -- Anatoly Chubais
In the US, most progressives start to see the differences between internationalism and economic globalization. -- David Korten
It has been said that arguing against globalization is like arguing against the laws of gravity. -- Kofi Annan
If you're totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you. -- Jimmy Carter
The Industrial Revolution caused a centuries-long shift in power to the West; globalization is now shifting the balance again. -- Dennis C. Blair
Information technology has been one of the leading drivers of globalization, and it may also become one of its major victims. -- Evgeny Morozov
In its current form, globalization cannot be sustained. Democratic societies will not support it. Authoritarian leaders will fear to impose it. -- John J. Sweeney
We have to choose between a global market driven only by calculations of short-term profit, and one which has a human face. -- Kofi Annan
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
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
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. --
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
The benefits and consequences of globalization have a great deal to do with whether we're intelligent and thoughtful about how we approach globalization, or whether we're blindly accepting... or blindly resistant. -- Ethan Zuckerman
Accordingly, globalization is not only something that will concern and threaten us in the future, but something that is taking place in the present and to which we must first open our eyes. -- Ulrich Beck
The features of globalization have huge consequences on pandemics. It just connects us so much more closely... And as a consequence, every one of these viruses that passes from animals to humans has the capacity to infect all of us. -- Nathan Wolfe
It is people who are the objects of globalization and at the same time its subjects. What also follows logically from this is that globalization is not a law of nature, but rather a process set in train by people. -- Tarja Halonen
For globalization to work for America, it must work for working people. We should measure the success of our economy by the breadth of our middle class, and the scope of opportunity offered to the poorest child to climb into that middle class. -- John Sweeney
Whatever it is that leads human beings to hate, to destroy, and to kill has taken on a collective force like never before, as technology and globalization now give it the capacity to not just strike, but to strike us all, together, as one. -- Marianne Williamson
As economic globalization gathers momentum, China and the United States have become highly interdependent economically. Such economic relations would not enjoy sustained, rapid growth if they were not based on mutual benefit or if they failed to deliver great benefits to the United States. -- Xi Jinping
I would define globalization as the freedom for my group of companies to invest where it wants when it wants, to produce what it wants, to buy and sell where it wants, and support the fewest restrictions possible coming from labour laws and social conventions. -- Percy Barnevik
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
The 1 to 2 billion poorest in the world, who don't have food for the day, suffer from the worst disease: globalization deficiency. The way globalization is occurring could be much better, but the worst thing is not being part of it. For those people, we need to support good civil societies and governments. -- Hans Rosling
It has been said that arguing against globalization is like arguing against the laws of gravity -- Kofi Annan
From the suites of Davos to the streets of Seattle, there is a growing consensus that globalization must now be reshaped to reflect values broader than simply the freedom of capital -- John J. Sweeney
Desperation is the result of globalization. -- Tariq Ali
Consumption has massively benefited from globalization. -- Christine Lagarde
Improved productivity is another direct benefit of globalization. -- Christine Lagarde
Ironically, xenophobic nationalists are utilizing the benefits of globalization. -- Maajid Nawaz
Diversification and globalization are the keys to the future. -- Fujio Mitarai
I think globalization has been really good for America. -- David Brooks
The greatest weapon of mass destruction is corporate economic globalization. -- Kenny Ausubel
I think we will become disenchanted with the glamour of globalization. -- Vandana Shiva
The Internet is the most effective instrument we have for globalization. -- Milton Friedman
In a world of scarce resources, globalization without new technology is unsustainable. -- Peter Thiel
Education, particularly higher education, will take Africa into the mainstream of globalization. -- John Agyekum Kufuor
Today, we jump into this globalization of the economy and the internet age. -- Ai Weiwei
Contagion has become very much a phenomenon, and it's a phenomenon of globalization. -- Lawrence Summers
We must take care that globalization does not become something people become afraid of. -- Gerhard Schroder
Imperialism or globalization - I don't have to care what it's called to hate it. -- Bill Ayers
The regime of globalization promotes an unfettered marketplace as the dynamic instrument organizing international relations. -- William Greider
Talking about 'stopping globalization' is unrealistic - and probably not what anti-globalization protesters actually want. -- Ethan Zuckerman
I don't think massification and globalization and all those other 'izations' are necessarily hostile to regionalism. -- John Shelton Reed
Transnational terrorism, in the form of the Salafi Jihadist movement, is fundamentally a function of globalization. -- Thomas P.M. Barnett
People now realize that globalization is not only for the multi-nationals and the circulation of money. -- Lakhdar Brahimi
Complementing the nation-state as it reaches its limits amid globalization: That is what Europe must offer. -- Martin Schulz

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