Christine Lagarde Quotes

As economic globalization gathers momentum, China and the United States have become highly interdependent economically. Such economic relations would not enjoy sustained, rapid growth if they were not based on mutual benefit or if they failed to deliver great benefits to the United States.

In a globalized economy, jobs no longer need a passport, but workers do.

The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest for everyone concerned.

The principal linkages between Japan and the U.S. global economies are trade, financial markets, and commodity markets.

I like multinational companies. They may have 40 to 60 percent of their engines of growth in the United States, but I do like the diversification of being more global.

When I look at how the banking world has changed and at the role Chinese banks, for example, play today, Germany, as an export-oriented economy, should be pleased to have a major global player in its camp.

Globalization is the process by which markets integrate worldwide.

Transnational, gigantic industrial companies no longer operate within political systems, but rather above them.

As far as the international industry is concerned, I don't think people care at all where you are from - if the work interests them.

Globalization

We are in a global competitive world. And in the future it will be even more, and more, and more global.

No nation can control its own destiny. They are played off against each other in the global economy.

Globalization tends to turn all friends and enemies into competitors.

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.

Global capitalism means that people are no longer confined by the decisions of national elites. These could be the local monopolies, the local powers, politicians, and so on. By making local powers compete or by bypassing them altogether, globalization gives people more freedom to decide.

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.

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

Wall Street has become the Western extension of Threadneedle and Lombard streets, and the wealthy classes of England and America have been brought into touch... .

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.

No free people can for long cling to any privilege or enjoy any safety in economic solitude.

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.

We have to work towards free trade because otherwise we will miss out on many opportunities for cooperation, and relations amongst countries will become much more difficult.

One of the most important political and economic facts of this young century is that capital has been slipping the traces of the nation-state. Business is global; government is national.