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

Every day, you have to prove yourself and convince - move forward and challenge yourself. And doubt all the time.

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.

From Christine Lagarde

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

From Christine Lagarde

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.

From Christine Lagarde

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

From Christine Lagarde

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

From Christine Lagarde

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

From Christine Lagarde

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.

From Christine Lagarde

As far as Athens is concerned, I also think about all those people who are trying to escape tax all the time. All these people in Greece who are trying to escape tax.

From Christine Lagarde

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