globalization Quotes

The great, unreported story in globalization is about power, not ideology. It's about how finance and business regularly, continuously insert their own self-interested deals and exceptions into rules and agreements that are then announced to the public as "free trade."

William Greider

Today's terrorism is not the product of a traditional history of anarchism, nihilism, or fanaticism. It is instead the contemporary partner of globalization.

Jean Baudrillard

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

Globalization is a policy, not an act of God

Jimmy Carter

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 is a strategy of liberalization that becomes an economic nightmare for the poor

Unknown

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 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 presumes sustained economic growth. Otherwise, the process loses its economic benefits and political support.

Paul A. Samuelson

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 a bottom-up phenomenon with all actions initiated by milions of individuals, the sum total of which is "globalization." No one is in charge, and no one can anticipate what the sum of all the individual initiatives will be before the result manifest. A global economy can only be the result of "spontaneous order.

John Naisbitt

If you're totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you.

Jimmy Carter

Globalization is a fact of life. But I believe we have underestimated its fragility.

Kofi Annan

We must ensure that the global market is embedded in broadly shared values and practices that reflect global social needs, and that all the world's people share the benefits of globalization.

Kofi Annan

It has been said that arguing against globalization is like arguing against the laws of gravity.

Kofi Annan