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
helping-others thinking people
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.
thinking diversity growth
I think there are multiple studies now to demonstrate that diversity, a better balance between genders, but also between different fields as well, is actually conducive to better growth, better bottom line, better results.
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.
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.
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.
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.
thinking people ego
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.
thinking leader reason
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.
thinking economy spending
Think about it. Women control 70 percent of global consumer spending . . . when women do better, economies do better.
certainly china countries emerging europe instance large propose
We certainly feel in Europe that we have made very large concessions. The emerging countries, particularly the large emerging countries -- China for instance -- are going to have to propose concessions.
consensus major progress
There will not be consensus and there will not be major progress (in Hong Kong),
cannot commission france proposals support therefore
As things stand, France therefore cannot support the commission in the agriculture proposals it has made,
attentive brought elbow grew minority period sentiment suffered time
Very often as a little girl, then as a young woman, I have suffered my lot of discrimination. I was brought up with brothers; I grew up in a boys' world. You have to elbow your way in. When you come with that sentiment of having been in a minority for a long period of time, then you are much more attentive to minorities.
common efforts europe given opening policy reform shame undertaken
Frankly, I think Europe should have no shame given the efforts that have been undertaken, given the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy that was undertaken in 2003 and given the opening of Europe in general.