Christine Lagarde Quotes

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.
Christine Lagarde

Life, Love, Business

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

Love, Alone, Giving

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

France, Criticized, Brutally

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

Before, Others, Service

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.
Christine Lagarde

Time, Trying, Far

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.
Christine Lagarde

Education, Time, School

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.
Christine Lagarde

Political, Used, Action

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.
Christine Lagarde

Father, Put, Away

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Politician

Born: January 1, 1956

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