Jack Welch Quotes

I think that the world is going to remain a very interconnected place. I don't think there's any getting away from that. The Internet has brought us closer together. I think cross-border trade is going to continue to grow substantially. I think there may be certain trade agreements that can be renegotiated, one way or another.

[Globalization] has enriched the world scientifically and culturally and benefited many people economically as well.

Globalization has produced a new of level of interdependence among us. The economy and multinational supply chains do not abide by political boundaries. A computer ordered in Brazil is designed in California and assembled in several other countries. Economic integration was the first strong evidence of a new era.

Globalization is the process by which markets integrate worldwide.

Globalization has rendered the world increasingly interdependent, but international politics is still based on the sovereignty of states.

To realize the full possibilities of this economy, we must reach beyond our own borders, to shape the revolution that is tearing down barriers and building new networks among nations and individuals, and economies and cultures: globalization. It's the central reality of our time.

Globalisation means many things. At one level, it talks of trade, which since the 16th century has exchanged goods and now, increasingly, ideas and information across the globe. But globalisation is also a view of the world - it is an opinion about man and why men are on the world.

The SSRC committee turned attention from team research for building a model of the United States to doing one for world trade in order to investigate the international transmission mechanism.

Modern techniques have torn down state frontiers, both economical and intellectual. The growth of means of transport has created a world market and an opportunity for division of labor embracing all the developed and most of the undeveloped states.

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 global community has become irreversibly interdependent, with the constant movement of people, ideas, goods and resources.

During the boom years of the 1990s, globalization emerged as the most significant development in our national life. With NAFTA and the Internet and big-box stores selling cheap goods from China, the line between national and international began to blur.

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

Its not a global village, but we're in a highly interconnected globe.

We talk about globalization today as if it's some great big new thing, that we've all just discovered. But there's really nothing new about it.

Globalization must be controlled.

One by one, trade and investment barriers will continue to be swept away by globalization, like leaves on an autumn day…The new challenge will be less to regulate relations among national economies, than to establish the rules and structures of a transnational economy.

The political boundaries of nation-states are too narrow and constricted to define the scope and activities of modern business.

America has a right to demand that the world’s markets are open to our products …

Globalization today is a globalization of markets, not a globalization of democracy.

… ideas. commodities even, refuse the bounds of a nation. All are inextricably connected…. This is true especially of our modern world with its complex commerce and means of intellectual connection.

New Zealand obviously is fully integrated into the global economy.

Globalization is simply opening the free marketplace to encompass the entire world.

The Great Convergence: Asia, the West and the Logic of One World.

A truly global economy, as opposed to the multinational economy of the recent past, will require concessions of national power ... that seemed impossible a few years ago and which even now we can but partly imagine.