Gordon Brown Quotes

Globalization

Globilization is here to stay.

I believe that we will benefit more by globalisation.

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

Globalization is a great thing, but it needs a legal framework in which to blossom.

Globalization is the process by which markets integrate worldwide.

Globalization must be controlled.

We cannot turn back the tides of globalization any more than King Knute [995-1035] could turn back the tides.

Globalization is the central reality of our time.

Globalization is very difficult to understand and almost impossible to regulate.

Globalization is the speed of light.

Globalisation is not remotely new; it has been occurring, at differing rates and with differing degrees of scale, for centuries.

Globalisation, for me, seems to be not first-order harm, and I find it very hard not to think about the billion people who have been dragged out of poverty as a result.

Globalization is a fact of economic life.

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.

People now realize that globalization is not only for the multi-nationals and the circulation of money.

This is not bad, but the pace of globalisation has surpassed the capacity of the system to adjust to new realities of a more interdependent and integrated world.

Globalization was a deep trend pushed by technology and right ideas, as much as anything else.

We are moving toward a global economy. One way of approaching that is to pull the covers over your head. Another is to say: It may be more complicated - but that's the world I am going to live in, I might as well be good at it.

We’re not at the endpoint of globalization but somewhere near the starting line.

I think globalization is a great thing. And now a lot of people complain about globalization; a lot of people don't like, you know, the globalize of the concept, the idea of the results. I think the globalization is a great idea and to create a lot of jobs.

Globalization can be a great opportunity.

The EU should be concentrated on adapting to globalisation and global competitiveness, not building more powerful centralised institutions in Brussels.

We are beginning to see the benefits of global consolidation.

People have accused me of being in favor of globalization. This is equivalent to accusing me of being in favor of the sun rising in the morning.