Christine Lagarde Quotes - Page 2

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• I'm not in the business of reading tea leaves. I don't have a crystal ball.

  Christine Lagarde

  Reading, Tea Leaves, Balls

  "Christine Lagarde: can the head of the IMF save the euro?". Interview With Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. May 25, 2012.

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

  Christine Lagarde

  Inspiring, Mean, Accountability

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• If inflation is the genie, then deflation is the ogre that must be fought decisively.

  Christine Lagarde

  Genies, Deflation, Inflation

  "Davos Dilemma: How To Help, Not Harm, World’s Fragile Recovery", www.huffingtonpost.com. January 21, 2014.

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• I think I have a male side about me and you have a female side about you. It's a question of repressing or not.

  Christine Lagarde

  Thinking, Males, Female

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

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• I guess economists, it's a bit like scientists, you have definitely fewer women in that field.

  Christine Lagarde

  Fields, Scientist, Economist

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• I look under the skin of countries' economies, and I help them make better decisions and be stronger, to prosper and create employment.

  Christine Lagarde

  Country, Decision, Skins

  "Christine Lagarde: can the head of the IMF save the euro?". Interview With Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. May 25, 2012.

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• We draw many benefits from globalization that people take for granted. Poverty has been reduced massively around the world. If you look at the Chinese numbers, it is quite mind-boggling: 700 million people taken out of poverty in a matter of 40 years, the poverty rate having moved from over 30 per cent from hardly six per cent now. That would not have happened if there had not been globalization.

  Christine Lagarde

  Taken, Years, Numbers

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

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• I was praised in the U.S. and heavily, brutally criticized in France.

  Christine Lagarde

  France

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

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• We would not be enjoying those cellphones and those tablets at the price where they are had it not been for globalization, both in terms of trade and in terms of constant technological innovation.

  Christine Lagarde

  Innovation, Tablets, Globalization

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

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• I love cooking. Not for myself alone. Cooking is about giving.

  Christine Lagarde

  Giving, Cooking, Cooking Love

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• Those negatively affected by globalization, those who are losing their jobs, and losing their skills, people out of training, must be looked after. Governments must establish policies, and governments and companies must actually address that issue, so that those who lose out from globalization can be retrained, recycled, re-established, cared for.

  Christine Lagarde

  Jobs, Government, Skills

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

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• All stakeholders must participate in the gains and losses of any particular situation.

  Christine Lagarde

  Responsibility, Loss, Gains

  "Is Angela Merkel The Real Cause Of The Irish Sovereign Debt Collapse?" by Joe Weisenthal, www.businessinsider.com. November 11, 2010.

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• When you think of a safe and solid arbitration place, you think of Switzerland, Sweden, Canada. Those attributes may be associated with clichés, but I think they resonate with a lot of people and they are a solid base for Canada to co-operate and help others.

  Christine Lagarde

  Helping Others, Thinking, People

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

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• Massive progress has been made in the last five years. More progress has to be made in terms of fiscal union and banking union.

  Christine Lagarde

  Inspiring, Years, Progress

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• The difficulty that negotiators have is often based on the cultural difference that various countries have.

  Christine Lagarde

  Country, Differences, Difficulty

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

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• In the area of trading, it is now an academically demonstrated fact that women tend to be a little bit more risk-adverse. They don't move positions as quickly and as erratically as men. Maybe it is a bit less profitably, but I think it would have been less risky.

  Christine Lagarde

  Moving, Men, Thinking

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

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• Countries like Canada, Korea, China, Germany can and should use fiscal space. Some of them are doing it, not all.

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  Country, Korea, Space

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

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• 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 that are used during political campaigns.

  Christine Lagarde

  Political, Promise, Campaigns

  "Christine Lagarde: can the head of the IMF save the euro?". Interview With Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. May 25, 2012.

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• It so happens that because all the economies are strongly inter-connected and aggregated, there is trade that is happening not just from China to the rest of the world, but from the rest of the world to China as well, and that is going to continue.

  Christine Lagarde

  World, Economy, China

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

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• People can buy the kind of things they consider as normal and take for granted because of globalization and trade and use of supply chains and the reduction of the cost base of the manufacturing of some products.

  Christine Lagarde

  People, Cost, Use

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

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• When in one area of the world the standard of living and the size of the middle class increases, it is going to have an effect elsewhere in the world as well.

  Christine Lagarde

  Class, World, Size

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

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• France would be reluctant to embrace any proposal by the European Commission to slash agricultural tariffs if it threatened the European Union's Common Agriculture Policy .

  Christine Lagarde

  Agriculture, Would Be, Unions

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• 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.

  Christine Lagarde

  Father, Perspective, Passed Away

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• There is a very strong linkage between U.S. banks and European banks. There are plenty of European employees that are employed by U.S. companies, and there are plenty of U.S. employees that are employed by European companies.

  Christine Lagarde

  Strong, Linkages, Employee

  "Christine Lagarde: Facing down worldwide recession". "Christine Lagarde" with Lara Logan, mobile-feeds.cbsnews.com. November 21, 2011.

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• Regulation is necessary, particularly in a sector, like the banking sector, which exposes countries and people to a risk.

  Christine Lagarde

  Country, People, Risk

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

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