Edward Sapir Quotes

The fact of the matter is that fewer people in Tokyo are able to do business in English than in many other big Asian cities, like Shanghai, Seoul or Bangkok.

All our hiring staff are trained to interview in English. They're trained to look for Westernized segments because we deal with global customers.

Increasingly, corporate executives who don't speak Japanese are coming into Japan. Unlike their predecessors, they expect their employees to be able to communicate in English.

English is the lingua franca of world business, the key to clinching deals from Hong King to Toronto.

You know it was really hard to do a set, or even to do interviews in English, because in Europe, we always had a translator with us.

I had the interesting experience of having lived and worked for six years in China with Procter & Gamble, and that just changes, I think, your whole perspective in living overseas and living in a country like China.

My children speak very good Chinese, and they translate for our American friends.

It's very hard having a career in different continents and two different languages.

Well it is sometimes difficult to act in another language.

We have a lot of customers in Japan, but they don't quite get the local content that they always need, so we want to encourage all of our product teams to start thinking globally.

If Japanese companies don't reform drastically and implement English as their daily business language, the economy will only continue to contract.

Back home, almost everything I did, I did in Hebrew. I went to drama school in Hebrew, my whole career was in Hebrew, and to switch languages was something that was fascinating and more complicated than I expected it to be, even though I've been speaking English since I could speak.

Globalization has brought a proliferation of such environments, so that even monolinguals must increasingly learn to live and act multilingually.

It's difficult to act in a language that's not your own. It takes a long time to put your head around it and feel confident with it.

We've always gone to other countries where there's been different standards and different practices you have to adhere to. WWE is like any other company, a global company.

I can speak English on the field but it's difficult with media.

Expanding internationally is exciting and fun, but the hardest part is really about maintaining culture.

It is very difficult to work in another language, and it is also very challenging.

I started a company in 2005 for language services called Blue Elephant. We handle translation and interpretation services in over 120 languages.

Language doesn't seem to be a barrier for me to do films in the south.

I run businesses all around the United States, all around the globe.

I think the thing that allows me to go into so many markets is that I can speak all the languages. Korean, Chinese, English, whatever. Thank you, my parents, for teaching me all the languages.

I want to try to have as many people as possible interested in my content, so it needs to go across language barriers.

I talk bilingual.

I don't think it's any different if I'm in the U.S. or in London. I look at operations globally.