Globalization Quotes
Top 20 Globalization
Quotes
No 1 (Best quote!)![Globalization Quotes Globalization Quotes](images/quotes-mccluhan.jpg)
The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village.
- Marshall McLuhan , pictured right, The Gutenberg
Galaxy (1962)
No 2![Globalization Quotes Globalization Quotes](images/quotes-levitt.jpg)
The global corporation... sells the same thing in the same way everywhere.
- Theodore (Ted) Levitt, pictured right, The Globalization of
Markets (1983 article)
No 3![Globalization Quotes Globalization Quotes](images/quotes-diogenes.jpg)
I am a citizen of the world.
- Diogenes (404-323 BC), Greek
philosopher, pictured right.
No 4
Think globally, act locally.
- Friends of the Earth (slogan, c.1985)
No 5![Globalization Quotes Globalization Quotes](images/quotes-carter.jpg)
If you’re illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization will never come to you.
- Jimmy Carter (1924- ), American president, pictured right.
No 6![Globalization Quotes Globalization Quotes](images/quotes-gandhi.jpg)
A nation’s culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.
- Mahatma ( Mohandas)
Gandhi (1869-1948), Indian leader, pictured right.
![Globalization Quotes Globalization Quotes](images/quotes-hampden-turner.jpg)
No 7
Our future success depends on how well we understand the deepest motivations of our trading partners.
- Charles Hampden-Turner,
pictured right and Fons Trompenaars,
pictured right,The Seven Cultures of Capitalism (1994).
Michel de
Montaigne (1533-92), the French writer and philosopher, pictured right below, also says we should
respect other cultures:
Everyone calls barbarism what is not customary to them.
No 8![Globalization Quotes Globalization Quotes](images/quotes-smith.jpg)
The proprietor of stock is properly a citizen of the world and is not necessarily attached to any particular
country.
- Adam Smith, pictured right, The Wealth
of Nations (1776)
No 9
Incentives, effort, perseverance, innovation and especially competition are the
source of economic progress in any nation and the basis for productive, satisfied citizens.
- Michael Porter, pictured right, The Competitive Advantage of
Nations (1990)
No 10![Globalization Quotes Globalization Quotes](images/quotes-ohmae.jpg)
Knowledge is the secret of success in the borderless world,
- Kenichi Ohmae, pictured right, The Borderless World (1990)
No 11![Globalization Quotes Globalization Quotes](images/quotes-george-vi.jpg)
Abroad is bloody.
- George VI (1895-1952), pictured right, British king.
No 12
The world’s mine oyster.
(Pistol in The Merry Wives of Windsor)
- William
Shakespeare (1564-1616), English playwright, pictured right.
No 13![Globalization Quotes Globalization Quotes](images/quotes-shakespeare.jpg)
All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players,
(Jaques in As You Like It).
- William
Shakespeare (1564-1616), pictured right, English playwright.
No 14![Globalization Quotes Globalization Quotes](images/quotesmurdoch.jpg)
There is no such thing as a global village. Most media are rooted in their national and local cultures.
- Rupert Murdoch (1931- ), Australian-born American businessman, pictured right.
No 15![Globalization Quotes Globalization Quotes](images/quotes-friedman-thomas.jpg)
If globalization were a sport, it would be the 100-metre dash, over and over and over. And no matter how many
times you win, you have to race again the next day.
- Thomas Friedman, pictured right, in Lexus and the Olive Tree (1999)
No 16![Globalization Quotes Globalization Quotes](images/quotes-friedman-thomas.jpg)
The driving idea behind globalization is free-market capitalism,
- Thomas Friedman ,pictured right, Lexus and the Olive Tree (1999)
No 17![Globalization Quotes Globalization Quotes](images/quotes-porter.jpg)
Nations succeed in industries where pressures are created that overcome inertia and promote ongoing improvement
and innovation instead of an easy life.
- Michael Porter, pictured right, The Competitive Advantage of
Nations (1990)
No 18![Globalization Quotes Globalization Quotes](images/quotes-jefferson.jpg)
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from
which they draw their gains.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), pictured
right, American president.
No 19![Globalization Quotes Globalization Quotes](images/quotes-paine.jpg)
My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.
- Thomas Paine 1737–1809, the
English philosopher, pictured right.
No 20![Globalization Quotes Globalization Quotes](images/quotes-garrison.jpg)
Our country is the world, our countrymen are all mankind.,
- William Lloyd
Garrison (1805-79), American abolitionist, pictured right.
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