John B. Larson Quotes

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

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.

No society lies nearer to the cyclonic path of the forces of world change than the United States, and few societies are more intellectually aware of the nature of the issues that have to be faced.

Although globalization is inexorable, its benefits are not.

The forces of global integration are a great tide, inexorably wearing away the established order of things.

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

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

The world had already changed before September 11. The world has been going through a process of change over the last 20 or 30 years. A civilization ends, another one begins.

When we live the 21st-century good life, almost every aspect of it is predicated on not looking at the implications of what we're up to. Happiness at this point has a lot to do with not looking, so you don't feel complicit in some vast and awful enterprise.

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.

The benefits and consequences of globalization have a great deal to do with whether we're intelligent and thoughtful about how we approach globalization, or whether we're blindly accepting... or blindly resistant.

People see fashion as superficial and shallow, but it's actually not. As an industry, it can really change how things happen and change trade for countries that really need it.

The world is changing very profoundly.

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

Accordingly, globalization is not only something that will concern and threaten us in the future, but something that is taking place in the present and to which we must first open our eyes.

Good intentions can often lead to unintended consequences. It is hard to imagine a law intended for the workforce known to Henry Ford can serve the needs of a workplace shaped by the innovations of Bill Gates.

The world has become more complex as technology and easy travel mixes cultures without homogenizing them.

Globalization is the process by which markets integrate worldwide.

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

Driven by globalization and technology our country and our economy is becoming different every day.

Globilization is here to stay.

Globalization is the central reality of our time.

The introduction of so powerful an agent as steam will make a great change in the situation of man.

You can't stop globalization any more than you can stop computers.