Globalization is the increasing interconnectedness of economies, cultures, and societies worldwide. It’s driven by advancements in technology, communication, and trade, facilitating the exchange of goods, services, and ideas globally. Key aspects include international trade, investment, technological innovation, cultural exchange, migration, environmental impact, and political dynamics. While globalization has spurred economic growth, cultural diversity, and technological progress, it’s also raised concerns about inequality, cultural homogenization, and environmental degradation. Managing its challenges while maximizing benefits remains a complex task for policymakers and society at large.
Globalization Quotes
1. “Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom.”
— Nelson Mandela
2. “Globalization is not a monolithic force but an evolving set of consequences – some good, some bad and some unintended. It is the new reality.”
— John B. Larson
3. “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
4. “Diversification and globalization are the keys to the future.”
— Fujio Mitarai
5. “We must create a kind of globalization that works for everyone… and not just for a few.”
— Nestor Kirchner
6. “We are aware that globalization doesn’t mean global friendship but global competition and, therefore, conflict. That doesn’t mean we will all destroy each other, but it is no happy global village, either.”
— Rene Girard
7. “Globalization is going to bring us closer and closer together across nations and technology you can’t stop.”
— John P. Kotter
8. “The negative side to globalization is that it wipes out entire economic systems and in doing so wipes out the accompanying culture.”
— Peter L. Berger
9. “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.”
— Eduardo Paes
10. “The speed of light does not merely transform the world. It becomes the world. Globalization is the speed of light.”
— Paul Virilio
11. “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
12. “It has been said that arguing against globalization is like arguing against the laws of gravity.”
— Kofi Annan
13. “The standardization of world culture, with local popular or traditional forms driven out or dumbed down to make way for American television, American music, food, clothes and films, has been seen by many as the very heart of globalization.”
— Fredric Jameson
14. “Accordingly, globalization is not only something that will concern and threaten us in the future, but something that is taking place in the present and to which we must first open our eyes.”
— Ulrich Beck
15. “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.”
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
16. “Globalization presumes sustained economic growth. Otherwise, the process loses its economic benefits and political support.”
— Paul Samuelson
17. “Globalization can be a great opportunity.”
— Emmanuel Macron
18. “In Globalization 1.0, which began around 1492, the world went from size large to size medium. In Globalization 2.0, the era that introduced us to multinational companies, it went from size medium to size small. And then around 2000 came Globalization 3.0, in which the world went from being small to tiny.”
— Thomas Friedman
19. “Education, particularly higher education, will take Africa into the mainstream of globalization.”
— John Agyekum Kufuor
20. “Globalization is very destructive to our species.”
— Varg Vikernes
21. “Globalization doesn’t have to be a bad thing as long as government provides us all with the tools to cope in a changing world.”
— John B. Larson
22. “Outsourcing and globalization of manufacturing allows companies to reduce costs, benefits consumers with lower cost goods and services, causes economic expansion that reduces unemployment, and increases productivity and job creation.”
— Larry Elder
23. “Globalization, far from putting an end to power diplomacy between States, has, on the contrary, intensified it.”
— Omar Bongo
24. “The fruits of the economy and all the advantages of technology and globalization have gone far more to the investor class and the professional class and not as much to the working class. Partly because of the loss of labor unions, partly because of things like a lack of antitrust enforcement, policies that have privileged shareholder returns.”
— Ro Khanna
25. “If it is, in reality, capitalism that is the motor force behind the destructive forms of globalization, then it must be in their capacity to neutralize or transform this particular mode of exploitation that one can best test these various forms of resistance to the West.”
— Fredric Jameson
26. “Globalization has much potential. It could be the answer to many of the world’s seemingly intractable problems. But this requires strong democratic foundations based on a political will to ensure equity and justice.”
— Sharan Burrow
27. “Well, we see an increasingly weaker labor movement as a result of the overall assault on the labor movement and as a result of the globalization of capital.”
— Angela Davis
28. “The regime of globalization promotes an unfettered marketplace as the dynamic instrument organizing international relations.”
— William Greider
29. “Globalization is the process by which markets integrate worldwide.”
— Michael Spence
30. “What is happening with automation and globalization, that’s not going away.”
— Campbell Brown
31. “The 1 to 2 billion poorest in the world, who don’t have food for the day, suffer from the worst disease: globalization deficiency. The way globalization is occurring could be much better, but the worst thing is not being part of it. For those people, we need to support good civil societies and governments.”
— Hans Rosling
32. “We should keep on going along the path of globalization. Globalization is good… when trade stops, war comes.”
— Jack Ma
33. “Globalization is a great thing, but it needs a legal framework in which to blossom.”
— Loretta Napoleoni
34. “Information technology has been one of the leading drivers of globalization, and it may also become one of its major victims.”
— Evgeny Morozov
35. “Globalization has changed us into a company that searches the world, not just to sell or to source, but to find intellectual capital – the world’s best talents and greatest ideas.”
— Jack Welch
36. “Globalization and free trade do spur economic growth, and they lead to lower prices on many goods.”
— Robert Reich
37. “Globalization means we have to re-examine some of our ideas, and look at ideas from other countries, from other cultures, and open ourselves to them. And that’s not comfortable for the average person.”
— Herbie Hancock
38. “In too many instances, the march to globalization has also meant the marginalization of women and girls. And that must change.”
— Hillary Clinton
39. “Globalization creates economic policies where the transnationals lord over us, and the result is misery and unemployment.”
— Evo Morales
40. “Imperialism or globalization – I don’t have to care what it’s called to hate it.”
— Bill Ayers
41. “China will continue to adopt multiple measures to advance the reform and opening up of its financial sector so that its financial market can better adapt to financial modernization and globalization.”
— Xi Jinping
42. “While globalization will make the world smaller and more accessible, we must continue to appreciate its vibrant diversity.”
— Jean-Philippe Courtois
43. “The trends that are shaping the twenty-first-century world embody both promise and peril. Globalization, for example, has lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty while contributing to social fragmentation and a massive increase in inequality, not to mention serious environmental damage.”
— Klaus Schwab
44. “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
45. “This globalization is lifting up hundreds of millions of people out of poverty. The Left needs to see that.”
— Chrystia Freeland
46. “Globalization can be shaped to ensure that people matter.”
— Sharan Burrow
47. “Globalization has made copper and other minerals more valuable, and Ghana and Kenya have recently discovered mineral resources.”
— Bill Gates
48. “The Industrial Revolution caused a centuries-long shift in power to the West; globalization is now shifting the balance again.”
— Dennis C. Blair
49. “No economy can succeed without a high-quality workforce, particularly in an age of globalization and technical change.”
— Ben Bernanke
50. “Globalization and trade liberalization were supposed to make us all better off through the mechanism of trickle-down economics. What we seemed to be seeing instead was trickle-up economics, accompanied by a destruction of democratic politics, as we moved ever closer to a system of ‘one dollar, one vote’ as opposed to ‘one person, one vote.’”
— Joseph Stiglitz
51. “Globalization is a fact of economic life.”
— Carlos Salinas de Gortari
52. “We must ensure that the global market is embedded in broadly shared values and practices that reflect global social needs, and that all the world’s people share the benefits of globalization.”
— Kofi Annan
53. “A lot of people, including business leaders, think the future belongs to China. Globalization is not a zero-sum game, but we need to hone our skills to stay in play.”
— Jon Meacham
54. “I really believe in a globalist agenda, but globalization isn’t just allowing companies to trade freely all over the world. It’s about what types of rights and responsibilities come with that.”
— Noreena Hertz
55. “The advantages of globalization are actually much like the advantages of technological improvement. They have very similar effects: they raise output in countries, raise productivity, create more jobs, raise wages, and lower prices of products in the world economy.”
— Gita Gopinath
56. “Withdrawing support from globalization is taking us in the wrong direction.”
— Justin Trudeau
57. “There is going to be globalization, but we need to do it under terms – under rules that work as rules work for our domestic economy on the dynamic of capitalism. You need to do trade in the same way.”
— Sherrod Brown
58. “If you’re totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you.”
— Jimmy Carter
59. “In its current form, globalization cannot be sustained. Democratic societies will not support it. Authoritarian leaders will fear to impose it.”
— John Sweeney
60. “Globalization requires taking a broad contextual and long-term view.”
— Helen Fisher
