Kofi Annan Quotes

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

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

Globalization is a fact of economic life.

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.

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.

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

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

To argue against the global economy is like stating opposition to the weather - it continues whether you like it or not.

I believe that we will benefit more by globalisation.

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.

We have benefited greatly from the globalization of the economy in the last 30 years.

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

Diversification and globalization are the keys to the future.

Globalization must be controlled.

Globilization is here to stay.

Globalization is the speed of light.

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

Globalisation feels like a runaway train, out of control.

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

So the American economy needs the world, and the world needs the American economy.

The Berlin Wall wasn't the only barrier to fall after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Traditional barriers to the flow of money, trade, people and ideas also fell.

We are beginning to see the benefits of global consolidation.

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 basic idea was that if a country would put its economy as an integrated piece of the world system, that it would benefit from that with economic growth. I concur with that basic view.

But just as haste and restlessness are typical of our present-day life, so change also takes place more rapidly than before. This applies to change in the relationships between nations as it does to change within an individual nation.