Jean-Georges Vongerichten Quotes

Frankly, I don't know how many companies there are, globally, which are truly global.

Once you go global, you can’t stay local.

Basically, I'm working on global domination. I plan to have members globally. What I'm looking to do is expand in a way that allows us to provide more access and take advantage of the sort of 'world is flat' technology platform, where it doesn't matter where you're located.

If you are only big in China, you are only a local Chinese company.

If you want to establish an international presence you can't do so from New York. You need the consecration of Paris.

It's a tough problem that a company faces once they branch out beyond one set of offices in California into that big bad world out there.

There are a number of start-ups in Europe that are able to reach beyond their own country. Take Spotify - Spotify just in Sweden isn't that interesting compared to Spotify all over the world.

Uber is a global business. We don't think just in terms of the U.S.

Softbank 2.0 means globalisation of Softbank.

When you're on a scale like we are in 170 countries and hundreds of thousands of people, you have a single point of view.

I can tell you there will be a performance centre in India. There will be a performance centre in the Middle East. There will, more than likely, be a performance centre in Latin America. We will be replicating this process around the globe, all over.

We have a global audience… we travel, and our name travels.

It shows that I'm an international brand if I open up in New York.

Media organizations are global. They may be based in the U.S., but they're essentially global.

We find that no matter what country we're in, if we hit the right economic notes and appeal to the mass market, we're able to build the business very, very rapidly.

Everything is global now. It's not London, it's not Spain, it's not Italy - everything is everywhere. So you have to be everywhere, I guess.

In the next decade, I see Spanx going worldwide. Everywhere. No butt left behind. It's going to be all over the world and it's going to be an aspirational brand that transcends categories. There's so many things we can improve upon and make better.

We significantly increased our global presence in 2014. During the year, we expanded the number of languages in which we serve customers to a total of 20.

In 75 foreign countries, we have a presence in the USDA.

Europe has always represented a major strategic opportunity to achieve our goal of creating and building an enduring global brand.

Our company is very diversified, both in terms of geography and in terms of products.

One of Aspen's primary strategic intents is to further globalize its business, increase its representation across a number of additional territories, and provide support to its growing global presence with a differentiated pipeline.

The one thing that's changed for 'That Metal Show' is that it's now global; it's now on in places outside of America.

Businesses are not just local or even national anymore - good ideas are immediately global. So the market opportunities are much larger than we've ever imagined or seen.

International markets are much bigger than the U.S. In Sweden we have 9 million inhabitants, and if you're successful in Sweden, you're not successful - it's such a small market.