Christine Lagarde's Quotes

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.