Matthew Stewart Quotes

Thomas Friedman's 'The World is Flat' sold more copies in India than in the U.K. The market for go-getting business books or wonkish tomes by corporate moguls posing as philosopher kings has grown dramatically in modernising China and India.

The period from 2002 to 2007 was probably our best period. We created a strategy to build global scale, footprints in each of the geographies and dramatically built our international business.

The nation will benefit in the long term if it continues to be open to foreign expertise. This will help the country to establish its business culture and environment faster, based on international best practice.

I see the level of sophistication and knowledge about business growing dramatically. Several decades ago, only a few companies thought about international business.

When I was a young guy, when I first started with G.E., Jack Welch sent us all to Japan because in those days Japan was gonna crush us. And we learned a lot about Japan when we were there. But over the subsequent 30 years, the Japanese companies all fell behind. And the reason why they fell behind is because they didn't globalize.

In a couple of years, the Chinese will be seen as regular participants in international industry. Their companies have to report to shareholders as well as to the Chinese authorities. They need to make money, they have to be efficient.

The fact of the matter is that fewer people in Tokyo are able to do business in English than in many other big Asian cities, like Shanghai, Seoul or Bangkok.

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.

In 1947 American corporations thought of themselves as national with offices abroad. Today, they see themselves as global corporations with headquarters in the United States.

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

Trump is not national: he's international. He's known all over the world. He has established businesses all over, and he has given jobs to thousands and thousands of people all over the world with these businesses that he has put together.

We continue to grow, and, just like with countries like China or other countries where we are not doing particularly well, we take a really long-term approach.

The U.K. and the U.S. are in different places. Don't get me wrong - I am there for the U.K. industry, and I am always searching for more roles to play there, but it's sparse.

One of my biggest sponsors is based in China, and I probably spend as much time there as I do in the U.K. Over the years, I have really grown to love it, but the first time I went was a different story.

Consulting offered me an opportunity to see a lot of different businesses in different regions of the world, to see how textiles were being affected by foreign competition, how technology was changing.

China's influence is growing; it is natural that they want to integrate more, do more business with countries around them, and the Belt and Road is a constructive way in which they can do so.

We will see growth in the U.S., and we will selectively acquire in the U.S., but we prefer to use our global opportunity.

I know the value and significance of trading opportunities and have seen myself from Americas to the Far East the power of trade and open markets.

We all have to think about the emerging markets.

Globalization means that business strategy and business ethics cannot be separated from each other.

People in emerging markets want to do business with the U.K. I don't see why the U.K. should be penalised for this.

Opening markets abroad through trade agreements is especially important for American small businesses and manufacturers to enhance growth and job creation.

It's amazing how many countries run their embassies as commercial outposts to promote businessmen from their country.

Expanding internationally is exciting and fun, but the hardest part is really about maintaining culture.

I studied business in the U.S. and later worked in Dubai.