Christine Lagarde Quotes

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• Our fortunes rise together, and they fall together. 'All men are brothers,' said the Analects. We have a collective responsibility-to bring about a more stable…
• Unless we take action on climate change, future generations will be roasted, toasted, fried and grilled.
• A global world needs global firewalls.
• We Need a RESET IN THE WAY THE ECONOMY GROWS Around the World
• If climate change issues are not adequately addressed—if we keep running those nice energy subsidies, if the price on carbon is not adequately set, if…
• If inflation is the genie, then deflation is the ogre that must be fought decisively,
• If Lehman Brothers had been a bit more Lehman Sisters ... we would not have had the degree of tragedy that we had as a…
• Tackling climate change is a collective endeavour, it means collective accountability and it's not too late
• Massive progress has been made in the last five years. More progress has to be made in terms of fiscal union and banking union.
• The financial industry is a service industry. It should serve others before it serves itself.
• When women do better, economies do better.
• I guess economists, it’s a bit like scientists, you have definitely fewer women in that field,
• I love cooking. Not for myself alone. Cooking is about giving.
• I was praised in the U.S. and heavily, brutally criticized in France.
• I think more of the little kids from a school in a little village in Niger who get teaching two hours a day, sharing one…
• I'm very much a believer that it's action that matters much more so than, you know, the flurry of political promises and statements and slogans…
• When my father passed away and then when later on I gave birth, those are sort of ground-breaking experiences that put everything else into perspective.
• I have a theory that women are generally given space and appointed to jobs when the situation is tough. I've observed that in many instances.…
• To me, leadership is about encouraging people. It's about stimulating them. It's about enabling them to achieve what they can achieve - and to do…
• I hate to say there are female and male ways of dealing with power, because I think each of us has a male and a…

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