Top 45 Multinational Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Multinational Quotes from famous people such as Simon Toyne, Travis Knight, Ma Jun, Varun Dhawan, Chuka Umunna, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

We have long suspected that the faceless organisations

We have long suspected that the faceless organisations that run our world – be it the church, multinational conglomerates or the government – keep things from us.
Simon Toyne
The film industry is run by multinational media conglomerates and they have their perspective on what they need from their product. That’s why we live in an era where you see reboots and sequels and remakes and prequels, all these old presents are re-wrapped and offered up as new gifts.
Travis Knight
Greening the globalised manufacturing and sourcing will be the single biggest help multinationals could make to the tough pollution control in China and other developing countries.
Ma Jun
After finishing my business administration course, I had gone to look for a job in a multinational bank, but the interviewee said that I should become an actor.
Varun Dhawan
Whether it is clamping down on tax avoidance by multinationals, setting ambitious targets for tackling climate change, or reforming the posted workers’ directive to better protect migrant workers, European countries are working together to get things done.
Chuka Umunna
Flexible supply chains are great for multinationals and consumers. But they erode already thin profit margins in developing-world factories and foster a pell-mell work environment in which getting the order out the door is the only thing that matters.
James Surowiecki
While we have been presented several opportunities to be acquired by multinational corporations, we are most excited that our collaboration with Bain Capital fulfills our commitment to remain an independent family-owned and operated company with a purpose-driven business model that puts community at our core.
Richelieu Dennis
I always needle a bit when people say I’m a champion of the Poles, because I’ve always had a very multinational view of Poland.
Norman Davies
I joined a very male-dominated profession back in 1986. I wanted to work with big multinational Fortune 500 companies, but you don’t come into the firm and automatically get those. So, quite frankly, a key to my success was that I found male mentors and male sponsors. I think some women are afraid to say that.
Cathy Engelbert
We might be shifting away from a Eurocentric view of the United States into something that’s much more multicultural, multinational, and Chinese food is just one slice of that.
Jennifer Lee
The union that is the United Kingdom has been extraordinarily successful. Our British family has cooperated brilliantly, working together with shared goals and values, to make a unique four-country multinational success.
Ed Davey
If the United States leads a multinational force into Iraq without United Nations backing, Canada should fight beside its neighbour. We’ve gone from being a middle power to a muddle power on this one.
Peter MacKay
It would be silly not to admit that there are some sections of the public who are unconvinced by the benefits or have doubts about the motives behind it. We have to be clear that GM is not all about profits for multinational companies.
Mark Walport
I think the Internet’s been a tremendous tool in terms of breaking down the power structure of information and entertainment, particularly at a time when so much information and entertainment were in the hands of so few people, with multinationals owning everything.
Dave Foley
You are slowly developing some multinationals of your own. We certainly hope that some of them will look in this direction when they look for opportunities because the progress of Southeast Asia is important to China, just as China’s progress is important to us.
Sellapan Ramanathan
For as long as multinational communities have existed, their weak point has always been the relations between different nations.
Slobodan Milosevic
Clearly, rules governing advertising aimed at children differ dramatically from one country to another. At the same time, multinational companies are selling their products across the globe. The need, therefore, is to evolve an international code on such advertisements.
Sucheta Dalal
The rules of the global economy are rigged against those who have to work to earn a living and in favour of multinational corporations and the ultra-rich.
Sharan Burrow
Sharia is the impetus behind multinational diplomatic efforts to accommodate Sharia blasphemy prohibitions on expression that offends Muslims.
Frank Gaffney
A CEO of a multinational global company can’t say what to do; you’ve got to plant the flag.
Dara Khosrowshahi
The Internet is too transformative for incumbents to not want to try to stifle or curb it – incumbents in the sense of multinational corporations, governments, take your pick.
Alexis Ohanian
We can no longer allow multinationals to parade as agents of progress and democracy in the newspapers, even as they subvert it at the workplace.
John Sweeney
Multinationals don’t pay taxes in Africa – we all know that.
Mo Ibrahim
One day, people in China may be able to see the records of conversations between multinational tech companies and the Chinese authorities.
Rebecca MacKinnon
UNIFIL was a complete disappointment. But a kind of multinational force.
Menachem Begin
Fear of foreign domination in India led the Janata Party, in the 1970s, to push for partial Indian ownership of all multinational firms within the country. The result was a spectacular pullback, by companies such as IBM and Coca-Cola, and a stagnant economy.
Peter Blair Henry
Multinational companies exploit national differences to abuse their workers, to dodge their taxes and to ‘regulation shop’ as a means to avoid meeting their responsibilities.
Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis
Bureaucracies tend to perpetuate themselves, whether they are multinational corporations or large government institutions such as Medicare, often at the expense of those that they are supposed to serve.
Dean Ornish
It’s time to take decisive action to stop American and other multinationals from aiding and abetting the wrong side in the global digital arms race.
Rebecca MacKinnon
Multinational corporations do control. They control the politicians. They control the media. They control the pattern of consumption, entertainment, thinking. They’re destroying the planet and laying the foundation for violent outbursts and racial division.
Jerry Brown
A lot of multinationals have long, drawn-out processes and are pretty useless at putting products on the shelves quickly.
Theo Paphitis
I think we ultimately ought to look to put all uranium

I think we ultimately ought to look to put all uranium enrichment and fuel reprocessing, if any is done, under multinational control. Those are the two technologies by which nuclear energy can be translated into nuclear weapons programmes.
John Holdren
Multinational brands, especially those with successful legacies, often struggle in emerging countries.
Dinesh Paliwal
United States and Coalition forces will remain in Iraq and will operate under American command as part of a multinational force authorized by the United Nations.
Jim Gerlach
We can’t allow multinational oil companies boasting of record profits to gouge consumers… We must do what we can to fix this problem.
Stephanie Herseth
I am more interested in fair and balanced trade between nations than I am in free trade that encumbers us in a multinational pact that is refereed by the WTO.
Ted Yoho
I like multinational companies. They may have 40 to 60 percent of their engines of growth in the United States, but I do like the diversification of being more global.
Laurence D. Fink
I would like to be a one-man multinational fashion phenomenon.
Karl Lagerfeld
Because of my politics, I don’t necessarily think that the independent capitalist is that much better than the multinational capitalist; it’s just that the independent capitalist hasn’t grown as big yet.
Boots Riley
Why buy sanitary napkins from multinationals when we can make them at home and generate employment?
Arunachalam Muruganantham
You can’t run a multinational business from your desk.
Daniel Schwartz
My observation on most people in national governments is that they have very little interest in and very little knowledge of the multinational institutions.
James Wolfensohn
It’s only in relatively recent years that Hollywood became the playground of multinational corporations which regard movies and TV shows as a minor irritant to their overall activity.
Peter Bart
In the past, we spoke of poverty, misery only in the south. Now there is a lot of misery, a lot of bad that creates victims in the north as well. This has become manifest: the global system was not made to serve the good of all, but to serve multinational companies.
Ahmed Ben Bella
There was one issue on which there seemed to be almost unanimity: the Internet should not be managed by any government, national or multinational.
Jon Postel