Muhtar Kent Quotes

When I was living in China, I learned to make things hyper-explicit because often they were being read by people whose command of English kept them from picking up what I thought were obvious signals.

In kindergarten, you can learn how to be a citizen of the world.

A lot of times when we work overseas we tend to put the experience of someone who lives overseas, a Chinese person or a Korean person or a Bosnian person, within the prism of an American life.

Globalize yourself!

I am very, very proud I am also Turkish and both of my parents are from Turkey. I was born in Germany and grew up there. By playing football, I learned my different cultures, and that is an advantage if you grow up as a person. You get a different view on certain things. I am very, very thankful I was able to pick the best from many cultures.

My perspective is cultural and world-based. It's always been a global perspective.

I was lucky to move around different cultures at an early age and have experience of different lifestyles.

People have asked me about what it's like to work in Pakistan and abroad. It's such a healthy cultural exchange.

Breaking down barriers, succeeding away from home, living in another country, another culture, different football, makes you much stronger.

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.

During my own gap year, I learned an invaluable lesson - that I was a lousy teacher. Even though the children I 'taught,' in upcountry Uganda, were desperate for qualifications, they largely ignored me. Until, that is, I realised that they wanted to hear about other young persons around the world.

The biggest lesson I've learned by living abroad for the last four years is the importance of communication.

The more you speak more languages, the more you understand about yourself.

I'm certainly not very book smart, but I started traveling at 16, and it has enriched me in ways I could never begin to explain.

I find it very beautiful to work in different countries because I see the mentality differences there. It is so rich, one always carries forward something.

My father was a diplomat for part of his life and I jumped from country to country and culture to culture.

The kids think we're wacky. Mum and Dad are in showbiz - they don't know any other way. They've grown up travelling all over the world and are getting a worldly education. My son is 12 and he can speak eloquently on religions and cultures.

My dad was a diplomat and after living in America, where I was born, he was posted to Cairo.

Americans who have travelled and who have English friends know we are not necessarily all baddies, but I think that seeing us being so incessantly nasty on screen has a drip, drip, drip effect on the rest of them.

If we are going to lead the world, we have to know where it is.

Travelers never think that they are the foreigners

I'm very comfortable in the U.S. and Europe, but I feel completely out of place in the rest of the world, mostly because I never spent time outside the U.S. and Europe until I was in my 30s.

People put 'study abroad' on their resume. I actually like when they don't study abroad because that means they aren't entitled. What about study abroad will make you a better J.Crew associate?

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.

China is just so different from the rest of the world.