Globalization And Technology Quotes

#1. Economic globalization creates wealth, but only for the elite who benefit from the surge of consolidations, mergers, global scale technology, and financial activity.

Anita Roddick

#2. There are no endings, and there are no fairy tales. But the pages keep being written. Time soldiers on.

Jill Dembowski

#3. Squeezing it in my palm, I prayed, Please, God, let this seed you planted in me bear fruit.

Sue Monk Kidd

#4. To succeed as a contrarian you must recognize what the crowd believes, have concrete justification for why the majority is wrong, and have the patience and conviction to stick with what is, by definition, an unpopular bet.

Whitney Tilson

#5. Technology causes problems as well as solves problems. Nobody has figured out a way to ensure that, as of tomorrow, technology won't create problems. Technology simply means increased power, which is why we have the global problems we face today.
(Interview, Sierra Magazine, May/June 2005)

Jared Diamond

#6. All I do is write their names on the lineup card and let them play. It's not a tough job. I haven't misspelled one name yet.

Harvey Kuenn

#7. Globalization was a deep trend pushed by technology and right ideas, as much as anything else.

Jeffrey Sachs

#8. NAFTA recognizes the reality of today's economy - globalization and technology. Our future is not in competing at the low-level wage job; it is in creating high-wage, new technology jobs based on our skills and our productivity.

John F. Kerry

#9. My own answer to the contrarian question is that most people think the future of the world will be defined by globalization, but the truth is that technology matters more.

Peter Thiel

#10. Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing ... you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world.

Jimmy Carter

#11. The bottom line is there are lots of problems that were not created by government. The biggest one is loss of middle class incomes, loss of good-paying jobs which was created by technology and globalization. Above all, when you can move a job to China or India, it reduces wages.

Chuck Schumer

#12. I see climate change as one of the driving forces in the 21st century. With modern technology and globalization, we are much more connected than ever before. The world's warehouses are now container ships.

David Titley

#13. I feel ashamed that the new, nuclear, neo-liberal India thinks of itself as a 'natural ally' of Israel. Ever since India began to call itself an emerging superpower, it has become a slavish, groveling satellite state of the US.

Arundhati Roy

#14. We must stop being the stupid party.

Bobby Jindal

#15. Real love is a humble receptivity of a silent heart that is prepared to melt and merge ...

Banani Ray

#16. These (literary) studies are the food of youth, and consolation of age; they adorn prosperity, and are the comfort and refuge of adversity; they are pleasant at home, and are no incumbrance abroad; they accompany us at night, in our travels, and in our rural retreats.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#17. Information technology has been one of the leading drivers of globalization, and it may also become one of its major victims.

Evgeny Morozov

#18. In a world of scarce resources, globalization without new technology is unsustainable.

Peter Thiel

#19. We are living through the most profound changes in the economy since the Industrial Revolution. Technology, globalization, and the accelerating pace of change have yielded chaotic markets, fierce competition, and unpredictable staff requirements.

Bruce Tulgan

#20. I have been to Turkey almost every summer holiday of my life and pretty much only on summer holidays, which makes me a very shallow Turk indeed.

Joseph O'Neill

#21. The key to understanding the rise in inequality isn't technology or globalization. It's the power of the moneyed interests to shape the underlying rules of the market.

Robert Reich

#22. I've taken my bumps and bruises, but you've got to be willing to get knocked down and pick yourself up. You can't get discouraged. You can't lose sight of what your goals are.

Jermaine O'Neal

#23. 'Globalization' has become the great tag phrase, but when we talk about it, it's nearly always in terms of the global marketplace or communications technology - either data or goods that are whizzing around. We forget that people are whizzing around more and more. On them, it takes a toll.

Pico Iyer

#24. Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.

Pat Riley

#25. The world is getting more connected through technology and travel. Cuisines are evolving. Some people are scared of globalization, but I think people will always take pride in cultural heritage.

John Mackey

#26. Whatever it is that leads human beings to hate, to destroy, and to kill has taken on a collective force like never before, as technology and globalization now give it the capacity to not just strike, but to strike us all, together, as one.

Marianne Williamson

#27. Today, the forces of competition, technology, and globalization have converged to spur innovation and to transform the way business is done in the securities industry.

Arthur Levitt

#28. Today's economic landscape is being shaped by two powerful forces - technology and globalization.

Philip Kotler

#29. Globalization replaced technology as the hope for the future. Since the '90s migration "from bricks to clicks" didn't work as hoped, investors went back to bricks (housing) and BRICs (globalization). The result was another bubble, this time in real estate.

Peter Thiel

#30. There's a sense of entitlement and isolationism that I think is really dangerous, and the way globalization and technology have been used isn't really for the best.

Rashida Jones