Jeffrey R. Immelt Quotes

Commercial interests survive longer than strategic interests. When countries do business together, they stay together.

Economically, we are, to some significant degree, interdependent with Chinese well-being. That is a great asset.

We're so interdependent, and what one country does is such an important part of what happens in the global economy.

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

We must stress that the euro has been beneficial to the European Union because, otherwise, in this context of international turmoil, every country would have to devalue their currencies.

The Dell Theory of Conflict Prevention argues that no two countries that are both part of the same global supply chain will ever fight a war as long as they are each part of that supply chain.

Specifically, the U.S. holds strength. Its own context makes it a very competitive country, but I believe that if we recognize how interdependent the U.S. with its neighbors from the North and the South, we are part of NAFTA, a trade agreement.

Northern Iraq has become, economically, a natural extension of Turkey.

We can’t influence other countries’ decisions if we send them a message that we’re backing away from trade.

Local and national politics have now become irretrievably global because their economies are locked into the global system.

The increase of riches and commerce and commerce in any one nation, instead of hurting, commonly promotes the riches and commerce of all its neighbors.

Our international trade relations, though vastly important, are in point of time and necessity, secondary to the establishment of a sound national economy. I favor as a practical policy the putting of first things first.

I am in favor of helping the prosperity of all countries because, when we are all prosperous, the trade of each becomes more valuable to the other.

Because of the economic crisis, China and the United States are bound together. This is a totally new phenomenon, and nobody will fight for ideology anymore. It’s all about business.

We have at last awakened to the realization that foreign and domestic trade are not in separate water-tight compartments--that they flow through the same pipes and seek a common level. We cannot live by ourselves, shut off from the balance of the world, without working harm to our economic system that would require many years for repair.

China's growth and stability is a vital issue for all nations.

Nations with a common currency never went to war against each other. A common currency is more than the money you pay with.

New Zealand obviously is fully integrated into the global economy.

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.

Shoji Ito was an Indophile like no other Japanese economist I have known. During the 1990s, he would frequently visit India to keep pace with the changes in the economy. We would always meet and have long conversations about India, Japan, and the world. Unfortunately, Ito-san died early.

We don't see any material impact of Brexit, either in the U.K. or in the neighbouring countries and the U.K.'s trading partners.

How can we have 'freer' free trade? Let's get real, for God's sake.

I think we have a thriving economic engine between not only the U.S. and Mexico but the U.S. and many, many other countries.

The United Nations, he told an audience at Harvard University, 'has not been able-nor can it be able-to shape a new world order which events so compellingly demand.' ... The new world order that will answer economic, military, and political problems, he said, 'urgently requires, I believe, that the United States take the leadership among all free peoples to make the underlying concepts and aspirations of national sovereignty truly meaningful through the federal approach.'

A state in India will have more traders than perhaps a European nation. Trade is a great way to integrate people.