Jack Ma Quotes

The fact is that co-operation between independent countries - to our mutual advantage - is the way of the modern world.

You can either invade a country or leave them alone and trade with them. When goods cross borders, armies don't.

In a globalized world policies based on zero-sum games do not work.

Commerce is a teacher and a pacificator. It gives mankind knowledge one of another. Reciprocity of trade promotes reciprocity of friendship. Good trade insures good will. … and wherever we secure just and fair commercial relations with other nations, we are sure to have with them friendly political relations.

We live in an inter-dependent world. An isolated India is not in our interest.

Nowadays, however strong an economy is, not all roads will lead only there. There will be other links between countries in Asia, with America, with Europe, and China will fit into this global network.

Trade has ever been the extinguisher of war, the eradicator of prejudice, the diffuser of knowledge.

Globalism began as a vision of a world with free trade, shared prosperity, and open borders. These are good, even noble things to aim for.

The forces that are driving mankind toward unity and peace are deep-seated and powerful. They are material and natural, as well as moral and intellectual.

Cooperation and collaboration among nations and countries can help in the process of development of promoting welfare as well as bringing peace and stability.

Peace is a natural effect of trade.

We could only solve our problems by cooperating with other countries. It would have been paradoxical not to cooperate. And therefore we needed to put an end to the Iron Curtain, to change the nature of international relations, to rid them of ideological confrontation, and particularly to end the arms race.

The global community has become irreversibly interdependent, with the constant movement of people, ideas, goods and resources.

'Capitalism' is a dirty word for many intellectuals, but there are a number of studies showing that open economies and free trade are negatively correlated with genocide and war.

There's a policy now of opening the doors to the outside world.

Our view is that economic isolationism is the wrong way to go. Vibrant, successful growing economies that advance the interests of their citizens engage the global economy. And, we're committed to engaging the global economy.

Instead of saying that globalization is a fact, that it's inevitable, we've also got to demonstrate that while the growing interdependence of the world economy is indeed a fact, it's not uncontrollable.

The idea that democracies never make war on each other rests on very thin historical ice.

There is not a conceivable enemy unless we create it, not a nation that would fight us if it could.

We live in an interdependent world. We depend on one another for prosperity.

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.

This age of globalization is marked by the adoption of universal principles governing such matters as democracy, human rights, trade and development.

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

In an interdependent world …, the idea that American can have of the blessings of globalization but none of the burdens doesn’t add up.

A day will come when their will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds opening to ideas.