Global Trends Quotes

Today, no country can ever truly cut itself off from the global media or from external sources of information. Trends that start in one corner of the world are rapidly replicated thousands of miles away.

Since the end of the 1970s, free-market capitalism has been in, and socialism has been out.

Eight billion people will have Internet access by 2020.

In the coming decades, questions of identity, meaning cultural heritage, language, and religion will play a central role in politics.

Australians have defied global economic gravity.

I don't accept my business the way it is, to be honest. I don't like what it's become. I don't blame anyone for it becoming the way it has. It's got its own hideous natural progression, just like world events.

There are now only a few countries following the socialist ways. We are one of these.

I actually think Johannesburg represents the future. My version of what I think the world is going to become looks like Johannesburg.

You have a huge demographic shift that's happening in America. Globally.

There are legitimate concerns long term, in my view, about nuclear war and policy and stuff like that. But the world has become a better place every 20 years for the last 2,000 years.

Our audience, it has been a more difficult process for classical music audiences around the world, and I'm not completely certain why.

I don't think massification and globalization and all those other 'izations' are necessarily hostile to regionalism.

I really chess-play culture shifts. I'm really good at understanding what worldwide cell-phone use means. That's what I do. I try to picture it three to four to five steps ahead.

As the world leads we follow.

By 2030, just a small percentage of the global population will live in poverty.

I learned very early in my investing careers: I better not invest in what I want. I better invest in what's happening in the world. Otherwise I'll be broke - dead broke.

It used to be said that you had to know what was happening in America because it gave us a glimpse of our future. Today, the rest of America, and after that Europe, had better heed what happens in California, for it already reveals the type of civilisation that is in store for all of us.

Looking at the world as a whole, the drift for many decades has been not towards anarchy but towards the reimposition of slavery. We may be heading not for general breakdown but for an epoch as horribly stable as the slave empires of antiquity.

There is a tendency around the world today to copy TV culture. And that is not always a virtue.

I have traveled to all the continents except for one, and I know what is going on out there... The world is rapidly becoming Ahmadinejadized.

Tell me what the world is saying today, and I'll tell you what the church will be saying in seven years.

The great task for environmental historians is to record and analyze the effects of man's recently achieved control over the natural world. What is needed is a longer-term global, comparative, historical perspective that treats the environment as a meaningful variable.

That's what happens in the world. You get offered superior contracts.

There's massive government initiatives going around the world, and you see that there's a real enthusiasm for genetics.

When we look at policy, it's important we make sure that it's up to date and reflective of the way the world works today - and where the world is heading in the future.