Christine Lagarde Quotes

• 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 that with a purpose.

  Christine Lagarde

  People, Purpose, Enabling

  "Christine Lagarde: ‘Don’t let the bastards get you’". Interview with Lillian Cunningham, www.washingtonpost.com. July 12, 2014.

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• Unless we take action on climate change, future generations will be roasted, toasted, fried and grilled.

  Christine Lagarde

  Inspiración, Divertido, Cambio

  "'Roasted, toasted, fried and grilled': climate-change talk from an unlikely source" by David Runnalls, www.theglobeandmail.com. February 1, 2013.

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• Think about it. Women control 70 percent of global consumer spending . . . when women do better, economies do better.

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  Thinking, Economy, Spending

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• I learned that you can constantly improve, and that you should not be shy about your views, and about the direction that you believe is right.

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  Believe, Views, Shy

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• If Lehman Brothers had been a bit more Lehman Sisters ... we would not have had the degree of tragedy that we had as a result of what happened.

  Christine Lagarde

  Brother, Tragedy, Degrees

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• We cannot just look at a country by looking at charts, graphs, and modelling the economy. Behind the numbers there are people.

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  País, Cifras, Personas

  "Christine Lagarde on slow growth, inequality and fighting cynicism". Interview with Kevin Carmichael, www.macleans.ca. September 12, 2016.

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• Diversity in and of itself is a strong positive.

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  Strong, Diversity

  "Christine Lagarde on slow growth, inequality and fighting cynicism". Interview with Kevin Carmichael, www.macleans.ca. September 12, 2016.

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• When women do better, economies do better.

  Christine Lagarde

  Economía

  "When women do better economies do better: IMF chief Christine Lagarde". Interview with Vikram Chandra, profit.ndtv.com. January 25, 2013.

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• 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. In times of crisis, women eventually are called upon to sort out the mess, face the difficult issues and be completely focused on restoring the situation.

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  Jobs, Issues, Space

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• You know, when I sit in meetings and things are very tense and people take things extremely seriously and they invest a lot of their ego, I sometimes think to myself, 'Come on, you know, there's life and there's death and there is love.' And all of that ego business is nonsense compared to that.

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  Pensamiento, Gente, Ego

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• Women, as the minority, have to prove their worth all the time. That's the reason we tend to over-prepare, over-study, over-anticipate. I think it's the case with many women leaders. We tend to over do it.

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  Thinking, Leader, Minorities

  "Christine Lagarde on slow growth, inequality and fighting cynicism". Interview with Kevin Carmichael, www.macleans.ca. September 12, 2016.

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• The financial industry is a service industry. It should serve others before it serves itself.

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  Financial, Should, Service Industry

  "Inside Job". Documentary, Crime, www.imdb.com. 2010.

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• It's a question of not so much pushing the boys out of the picture, but making the whole frame bigger so that both men and women access the labor market, contribute to the economy, generate growth, have jobs, and so on.

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  Jobs, Boys, Men

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• We Need a RESET IN THE WAY THE ECONOMY GROWS Around the World

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  Needs, World, Way

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• Improved productivity is another direct benefit of globalization.

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  Benefits, Globalization, Direct

  "Christine Lagarde on slow growth, inequality and fighting cynicism". Interview with Kevin Carmichael, www.macleans.ca. September 12, 2016.

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• If you have an overwhelming majority of one sex over the other, and clearly in our case at the moment - and it has been like this for a long time - it is male over female, you tend to have group thinking. You tend to have common references, combined with competition, combined in this case with testosterone. I'm not suggesting it's a toxic mix, but I'm saying it needs to be tempered and altered and modified and made better by diversity.

  Christine Lagarde

  Sex, Thinking, Diversity

  "Christine Lagarde on slow growth, inequality and fighting cynicism". Interview with Kevin Carmichael, www.macleans.ca. September 12, 2016.

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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 and more prosperous world, a world in which every person in every country can reach their full potential.

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  Country, Brother, Fall

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• 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 female part. But based on my own experience, women will tend to be inclusive, to reach out more, to care a little more.

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  Hate, Thinking, Males

  "A Study in Power: Christine Lagarde" by Camilla Webster, www.forbes.com. August 24, 2011.

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• We need to put our good research, our good work, our principles into actionable items whenever we can.

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  Principles, Needs, Research

  "Christine Lagarde on slow growth, inequality and fighting cynicism". Interview with Kevin Carmichael, www.macleans.ca. September 12, 2016.

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• A global world needs global firewalls.

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  Needs, World

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• Social unrest and protectionism are the two major risks of the world economic crisis.

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  Social Unrest, Two, Risk

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• It's become my brand in a way you know, speaking the truth even though it was not politically correct.

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  Way, Speak The Truth, Politically Correct

  "Christine Lagarde: Facing down worldwide recession". Interview with Lara Logan, www.cbsnews.com. November 21, 2011.

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• 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 chair for three of them, and who are very keen to get an education. I have them in my mind all the time. Because I think they need even more help than the people in Athens.

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  Teaching, School, Kids

  "It's payback time: don't expect sympathy - Lagarde to Greeks" by Larry Elliott, Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. May 25, 2012.

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• Before a negotiation can proceed and be completed, what is outside the scope of negotiation needs to be agreed.

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  Needs, Negotiation, Scope

  "Christine Lagarde on slow growth, inequality and fighting cynicism". Interview with Kevin Carmichael, www.macleans.ca. September 12, 2016.

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• Tackling climate change is a collective endeavour, it means collective accountability and it's not too late

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  Inspiring, Mean, Accountability

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