Carlos M. Gutierrez Quotes

Globalization tends to turn all friends and enemies into competitors.

Our competition for American business is no longer in the next county or the next state, it's around the world.

Ukrainian business must really embrace global competition. We need to understand that competition for resources and clients is not with competitors from across the street or from another city, but with millions of businesses around the world.

Globalization is a fact of economic life.

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.

For the first time in history, a single worldwide economic system has come into being.

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.

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

We're part of a global economy whether we like it or not.

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

No interest can divide two peoples connected only over vast tracts of sea; the relations of commerce will form a chain which, if not eternal, will be of long duration.

Globalization punctures borders.

New Zealand obviously is fully integrated into the global economy.

A lot of companies are global.

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.

This is a basic requirement the meaning of globalization is that we should admit that the economy of each country is dependent on the economy of all the others.

The regime of globalization promotes an unfettered marketplace as the dynamic instrument organizing international relations.

We are beginning to see the benefits of global consolidation.

When 'designed in Europe' is combined with 'made in China' and when European technologies are applied to the Chinese market, there will be amazing results.

If you're a global company you are going to have jobs overseas. The reality is if we start taxing those jobs at a rate that makes them noncompetitive in those markets, the reality is that we're going to lose business.

Globalization has created this interlocking fragility. At no time in the history of the universe has the cancellation of a Christmas order in New York meant layoffs in China.

The challenge to our national economies and the collective economy of Europe will become - with the growth of China and the continuing productivity growth of the US - even more intense in the decades to come.

I think Canada, our industry is still somewhat based in America's industry.

The benefits and consequences of globalization have a great deal to do with whether we're intelligent and thoughtful about how we approach globalization, or whether we're blindly accepting... or blindly resistant.

Washburn's an old American name, but this one was assembled overseas.