Christine Lagarde
Christine Lagarde
Christine Madeleine Odette Lagarde is a French lawyer and politician who has been the Managing Directorof the International Monetary Fundsince 5 July 2011...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth1 January 1956
CountryFrance
thinking diversity long
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.
way speak-the-truth politically-correct
It's become my brand in a way, you know, speaking the truth even though it was not politically correct.
world way needs
We Need a RESET IN THE WAY THE ECONOMY GROWS Around the World
strong diversity
Diversity in and of itself is a strong positive.
financial should service-industry
The financial industry is a service industry. It should serve others before it serves itself.
hate thinking female
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.
giving cooking cooking-love
I love cooking. Not for myself alone. Cooking is about giving.
moving men thinking
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.
social-unrest two risk
Social unrest and protectionism are the two major risks of the world economic crisis.
brother tragedy world
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.
teaching school kids
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.
thinking female
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.
country brother fall
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.
believe views shy
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.