Sellapan Ramanathan Quotes

One of the criteria for a global company is that it should have a manufacturing presence in multiple countries and should not only be an exporter.

America is becoming more and more dependent upon imports from foreign manufacturers than we are exports from our country in all fields: in appliances, in clothing, even food. This year America may become for the first time in its history a net food importer.

China is investing in factories in Eastern Europe, not because their labor costs are lower, but because they want to be closer to their markets.

The United States is rapidly becoming a colony of Japan.

You cannot buy an American telephone, TV set or VCR. This is a part of America that has gone abroad and will never come back again.

Many American industries may be expected to acquire foreign properties to supplement their raw material supplies.

A lot of companies are global.

For a country like India, which, unlike China, has domestic market for which manufacturing happens, manufacturing also happens for export.

I see a big, promising future for India's manufacturing and supply chain part of our company.

We've become increasingly addicted to consumption of goods that we don't produce ourselves, and a lot of the manufacturing has gone overseas.

Beneficial in theory, so-called free trade agreements far too often have been detrimental to the United States economy and the manufacturing sector that forms its central pillar.

Our competition for American business is no longer in the next county or the next state, it's around the world.

Ukrainian business must really embrace global competition. We need to understand that competition for resources and clients is not with competitors from across the street or from another city, but with millions of businesses around the world.

America, the temple of invention and industry, doesn't make things anymore.

The need of a constantly expanding market for his products chases the manufacturer over the whole surface of the globe. They must nestle everywhere, settle everywhere, establish connections everywhere.

While we have land to labor, let us never wish to see our citizens occupied at a workbench or twirling a distaff. Carpenters, masons, smiths, are wanting in husbandry; but for the general operations of manufacture, let our workshops remain in Europe.

We are the greatest trading country in the world because we have the greatest exportation of the growth and product of our land and of the manufacture and labor of our people; and the greatest importation and consumption of the growth, product, and manufactures of other countries from abroad, of any nation in the world.

The people who are banking on Oriental trade are bound to be disappointed. The United States cannot compete with foreign countries until we can manufacture products at a lower cost, which means cheaper labor

Cheap goods are the artillery for battering down Chinese walls and for overcoming the obstinate hatred entertained against foreigners by semi-civilised nations

It is impossible for any power to become eminent in commerce, without excelling in manufactures and navigation. America is capable of supporting and increasing both …

Over the last three decades, Mexico has made the transition from a commodity and agricultural-based economy to one dominated by manufacturing and services.

Mexican exports worldwide benefit the U.S. economy because of their high percentage of U. S. content.

Western companies want access to Indian talent. That is why they outsource; that is why they come to India to set up base.

China's continued growth and rising household income are creating opportunities for lower-income economies in low-cost manufacturing.

Germany's strength lies largely in the fact that the Federal Republic is a center of industry and that it's an export nation.