Mohamed ElBaradei

The international community must do a better job of controlling the risks of nuclear proliferation. Sensitive parts of the nuclear fuel cycle - the production of new fuel, the processing of weapon-usable material, the disposal of spent fuel and radioactive waste - would be less vulnerable to proliferation if brought under multinational control.

Egyptian Scientist

Neil deGrasse Tyson

One of the symptoms of an absence of innovation is the fact that you lose your jobs. Everyone else catches up with you. They can do what you do better than you or cheaper than you. And in a multinational corporate-free market enterprise, it is the company's obligation to take the factory to a place where they can make it more cheaply.

American Scientist

Kevin McCarthy

In addition to billions in new 'stimulus' spending that our country can't afford, the Geithner plan also contains billions in tax increases on small and family-owned businesses while protecting the tax preferences of wealthy, multinational corporations.

American Politician

John Holdren

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.

American Public Servant

Kay Ivey

The companies sending Alabama-made products to markets across the world are not just large, multinational companies, but also small and medium-sized companies located in communities across the state.

Gordon Brown

Every country is going to have to face up to globalisation, but Scotland has got a unique capacity because of its history as part of a multinational state to help us deal with that problem.

British Politician

Paul Polman

Unilever brings together the resources and experience of a multinational company alongside our deep local roots, which enables us to grow a genuinely African consumer goods business.

Dutch Businessman

Simon Toyne

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.

British Writer

Menachem Begin

UNIFIL was a complete disappointment. But a kind of multinational force.

Israeli Politician

Karl Lagerfeld

I would like to be a one-man multinational fashion phenomenon.

German Designer

When describing a company, 'multinational' emphasizes its wide cultural reach and varied markets.

Cultural Presence

'Multinational' describes companies or groups, not governments or countries themselves.

Not Governments

Using 'multinational' can imply a large and powerful business with global influence.

Impression of Size

Multinationals exist in all sectors, from technology to food, not just one industry.

Industry Variety

Multinationals are powerful economic entities with significant impact on local and global economies.

Economic Impact

They tailor their strategies to operate across different legal and cultural landscapes.

Global Strategy

 Then I spend another four years to create my own machine tools, a simple machine tool like this. In this machine, any rural woman can apply the same raw materials that they are processing in the multinational plant, anyone can make a world-class napkin at your dining hall. That is my invention.

Arunachalam Muruganantham...

 the country several months ago national geographic senate teamed a report on life in afghanistan a country that's experienced two decades of war and multinational efforts to build a western-style democracy but now the elected afghan president has fled the country and the taliban are

Portraits of Afghanistan...

 to our key value proposition, which was cleanliness and convenience. DryBath is a rich man's convenience and a poor man's lifesaver. Having put the product into practice, we are actually now on the verge of selling the product onto a multinational to take it to the retail market,

Ludwick Marishane: A...

 and a corrupt system that perpetuates itself. Although Mali has abundant gold, the country lacks the infrastructure to mine and export it. So the government allows multinational corporations to apply for licenses to mine gold in exchange for taxes paid to Mali’s government.

The true cost of gold - ...

 They are multinational, as I say, they are branded, they have a clear identity, so they don't get lost in a busy world. That's something we can learn from. I want to conclude. Really what I want to say is for many of you who are operating in a range of different fields,

Atheism 2.0 PIPE Alain de...

 or even how difficult it is to get the big multinational companies, including those whose motto might be "don't do evil," to pay taxes at a rate even approaching that paid by the middle class. But while getting rid of crony capitalism in practice

Chrystia Freeland: The...

 so if half of the world GDP is not enough to make progress on financial transparency and minimal tax for multinational corporate profits, what does it take? So I think these are not technical difficulties. I think we can make progress

Thomas Piketty: New...

 into a truly integrated multinational that has partnerships in production in the south and partnerships in global distribution across the planet. They have cultivated a brand of professionalism, business acumen and innovation.

The deadly genius of...

 All of those are respected by Cyrus. Cyrus sets up a model of how you run a great multinational, multifaith, multicultural society. And the result of that was an empire that included the areas you see on the screen,

Neil MacGregor: 2600...

 general critics of multinational corporations no not at all we were happy customers who didn't feel quite content buying the products of these companies when they just said well