Christine Lagarde Quotes

They were looking for a stable, but we didn't have one. In fact, we weren't very stable ourselves.

Our trust in the future has lost its innocence. We know now that anything can happen from one minute to the next. Politics, religion, economics, and the institutions of family and community all have become abruptly unsure.

I’m concerned about all areas of uncertainty.

People don't like to see instability.

There is nothing so uncertain as a sure thing.

In this business, you just never know from day to day. It's one reason I held off getting too involved in entertainment. I like being able to plan, I like to know what I'm going to be doing.

It's really impossible to project ahead even six months in this business.

The world is a dynamic mess of jiggling things.

People are tired of constant movement, improvisation, and wild scrambling when plans fail.

Anytime you introduce volatility, it is not good for business and not good for travel.

Normal, in our house, is like a blanket too short for a bed--sometimes it covers you just fine, and other times it leaves you cold and shaking; and worst of all, you never know which of the two it's going to be.

As a speculator you must embrace disorder and chaos.

Life isn't nearly as stable as we want it to be.

If there's one thing that's certain in business, it's uncertainty.

There's chaos out there, and chaos means opportunity.

You can't predict anything. How can you be certain about anything when everything is chaos and we're not in control?

Everything is contingent, and there is also chaos.

Revolutions and their aftermaths, of course, are always fluid and fickle times, and the outcome is often perched on a knife's edge.

Never think that lack of variability is stability. Don't confuse lack of volatility with stability, ever.

Don't take too much comfort in the fact that you're successful today because tomorrow could bring failure. There's no surety in life.

The roof might fall in; anything could happen.

The world is a very abnormal place.

Chaos is a friend of mine.

So give me a turbulent world as opposed to a quiet world and I'll take the turbulent one.

Life is full of change and uncertainty. We know this. We experience it on a daily basis.