• Government and Politics

  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.

  4.0 · 13 votes · 121 reads

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• Nature

  I have a theory that women are generally given space and appointed to jobs when the situation is tough. I've observed that in many instances. In times of crisis, women eventually are called upon to sort out the mess, face the difficult issues and be compl

  3.8 · 23 votes · 144 reads

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• Nature

  I have lived with extraordinary women, whether it was my grandmother, my mother. My father passed away when I was 16... I was witness to a woman who single handedly brought up the entire family and managed to do everything... She was an extraordinary role

  3.8 · 10 votes · 123 reads

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• Nature

  I know this is economic jargon, but essentially, if you bring more women to the job market, you create value, it makes economic sense, and growth is improved. There are countries where it's almost a no-brainer: Korea, Japan, soon to be China, certainly Ge

  4.7 · 42 votes · 167 reads

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• Virtues

  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.

  3.7 · 34 votes · 157 reads

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• Society

  I look under the skin of countries' economies, and I help them make better decisions and be stronger, to prosper and create employment.

  4.3 · 9 votes · 150 reads

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• Nature

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

  3.7 · 29 votes · 107 reads

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• Various

  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 eve

  4.1 · 13 votes · 121 reads

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• Time

  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.

  3.6 · 63 votes · 75 reads

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• Art and Culture

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

  3.4 · 55 votes · 126 reads

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• Time

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

  3.7 · 53 votes · 184 reads

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• Society

  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 ant

  5.0 · 27 votes · 94 reads

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• Society

  I'm proud that somebody like myself has made it to the very top.

  3.5 · 54 votes · 116 reads

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• Various

  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.

  4.2 · 22 votes · 180 reads

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• Countries

  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 philosophica

  3.2 · 25 votes · 77 reads

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• Nature

  In the 2013 Economists Program, we hired 51 percent women, 49 percent men. And the reason for that is that we have a draft from all over the world, and we've hired, for instance, in that group, a good number of Chinese economists - highly qualified, all P

  4.1 · 8 votes · 132 reads

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• Society

  It's a question of not so much pushing the boys out of the picture, but making the whole frame bigger so that both men and women access the labor market, contribute to the economy, generate growth, have jobs, and so on.

  4.1 · 45 votes · 176 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  It's become my brand in a way, you know, speaking the truth even though it was not politically correct.

  3.5 · 43 votes · 40 reads

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• Society

  Markets love volatility.

  3.6 · 57 votes · 61 reads

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• Nature

  My father passed away after three years of debilitating disease, which transformed a very strong and bright man into a real wreck. And that is hard. You have to get out of that stronger, if you can, which I was lucky to be able to. I was the eldest of the

  4.6 · 62 votes · 80 reads

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• Society

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

  3.8 · 58 votes · 73 reads

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• Society

  The Europeans governments have massively changed the landscape in Europe. There is no doubt about it. They have put together the European Financial Stability Fund. They have discussed and approved the European Stability Mechanism.

  4.0 · 58 votes · 144 reads

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• Society

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

  4.8 · 45 votes · 181 reads

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• Society

  There is a very strong linkage between U.S. banks and European banks. There are plenty of European employees that are employed by U.S. companies, and there are plenty of U.S. employees that are employed by European companies.

  4.7 · 49 votes · 139 reads

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• Government and Politics

  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.

  3.1 · 52 votes · 184 reads

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• Nature

  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 l

  4.0 · 16 votes · 12 reads

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• Society

  When I started my life as a baby lawyer, I was interviewing with all the best firms then at the time, and one of them was, you know, probably the most reputable in France, and told me, 'You can join us tomorrow and be an associate, be given great tasks an

  4.2 · 32 votes · 93 reads

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• Society

  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 e

  5.0 · 46 votes · 95 reads

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• Women10 of their quotes
• Economy7 of their quotes
• Finance5 of their quotes
• Work2 of their quotes
• Taxes1 of their quote
• Greece1 of their quote