"I would define globalization as the freedom for my group of companies to invest where it wants when it wants, to produce what it wants, to buy and sell where it wants, and support the fewest restrictions possible coming from labour laws and social conventions."

-- Percy Barnevik

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“Our minds are as much given to laziness as our bodies.”
“The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction.”
“For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.”
“If you think about what acting is supposed to be, my job is to disappear.”
“Man needs to suffer. When he does not have real griefs he creates them.”
“There is a secret about human love that is commonly overlooked: Receiving it is much more scary and threatening than giving it. How many times in your life have you been unable to let in someone's love or even pushed it away? Much as we proclaim the wish to be truly loved, we are often afraid of that, and so find it difficult to open to love or let it all the way in.”

Source : John Welwood (2005). “Perfect Love, Imperfect Relationships: Healing the Wound of the Heart”, p.20, Shambhala Publications
“Sometimes we can take offense so easily. On other occasions we are too stubborn to accept a sincere apology. Who will subordinate ego, pride, and hurt-then step forward with 'I am truly sorry! Let's be as we once were: friends. Let's not pass to future generations the grievances, the anger of our time'? Let's remove any hidden wedges that can do nothing but destroy.”
“A good fighter usually knows, to within a very few seconds, when a three-minute round is going to end.”

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