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Grit your teeth and smile. In the face of adversity, go. They don't deserve you.

~Christine Lagarde

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If female were working in the same proportion as men do, the level of GDP would be up 27 percent in a country like India, but also up 9 percent in Japan and up 5 percent in the United States of America. It's not just a moral issue, not just a philosophical issue. It just makes economic sense.

~Christine Lagarde

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I do believe women have different ways of taking risks, of ruminating a bit more before they jump to conclusions. And I think that as a result, particularly on the, on, you know, on the trading floor, in the financial markets in general, the approach would be different.

~Christine Lagarde

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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

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

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I'm of those who believe that excesses in all matters are not a good idea, whether it's formation of bubbles, whether it's excess in the financial market, whether it's excess of inequality, it has to be watched, it has to be measured, and it has to be anticipated in terms of consequences.

~Christine Lagarde

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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.

~Christine Lagarde

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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

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

~Christine Lagarde

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Markets love volatility.

~Christine Lagarde

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Politician

Born: January 1st, 1956

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