Willy Bogner Jr. Quotes

When in Rome, I must do as the Romans do. When in America, make Bikram copyright and trademark.

I'm persuaded today that the only way you can get into another country with a different culture from your own is to find a local partner who knows the market. Discovering this felt like small children discovering that if you put a bobby pin into an electric plug you get a shock!

Always when you go to a new country and they teach you bad words, you just say them without knowing the value and people look at you because you didn't know that value of them.

The art of learning fundamental common values is perhaps the greatest gain of travel to those who wish to live at ease among their fellows.

I am very happy since when I am in different cities I can experience and learn different cultures!

Globalisation has obliterated distance, not just physically but also, most dangerously, mentally. It creates the illusion of intimacy when, in fact, the mental distances have changed little. It has concertinaed the world without engendering the necessary respect, recognition and tolerance that must accompany it.

Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men; and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds.

Companies in Europe should stop trying to do the U.S. version of a European idea.

It's always overwhelming when you come to another country and you're embraced in such a positive way.

Travelers never think that they are the foreigners

If I had not been coached well about how to deal with a culture and a set of values that were foreign to my own, I would not have been able to be successful.

Whenever I'm around Spanish people, I'm kind of like a fly on the wall.

Others think their American ways will work in other countries. That's not always accurate and can be disrespectful to the local culture.

I think when you move to a country like the U.S., you need to understand the culture, to understand how people see the game, and adapt yourself.

If you're playing in a tradition and you have no reference point to it, no understanding and have not studied it, I can't respect that.

A danger of travel is that we see things at the wrong time, before we have had a chance to build up the necessary receptivity and when new information is therefore as useless and fugitive as necklace beads without a connecting chain.

At about the age of seven … I wrote exactly the kinds of stories I was reading: All my characters were white and blue-eyed, they played in the snow, they ate apples, and they talked a lot about the weather: how lovely it was that the sun had come out. This despite the fact that I lived in Nigeria; we didn’t have snow, we ate mangoes, and we never talked about the weather, because there was no need to.

You're sort of forced to include this aspect of culture into your life whether it be for social reasons or business purposes.

We do not need to understand other people and their customs fully to interact with them and learn in the process; it is making the effort to interact without knowing all the rules, improvising certain situations, which allows us to grow.

Those who visit foreign nations, but who associate only with their own countrymen, change their climate, but not their customs 'caelum non animum mutant': they see new meridians, but the same men, and with heads as empty as their pockets.

I'm not afraid to look like a big, hairy, smelly, foreign devil in Tokyo, though I do my best not to, I really do.

Our leaders increasingly see fit to lecture the ethnic minorities on the need to integrate, including of course the need to speak English. What about the need, though, for Britain to integrate with the rest of the world?

That is something that I always want to do when I arrive somewhere is to know about the culture of the country, about the club and make sure I know what it takes to wear the jersey.

Compared with U.S. cities, Japanese cities bend over backward to help foreigners. The countryside is another matter.

Throughout history, it took centuries for the habits of one culture to materially affect another. Now, that which becomes popular in one country can sweep through others within months.