Top 40 Timothy Geithner Quotes
#1. I think you need to have a tax system that basically is flat, fair and simple. And - that you can put on a post card. I mean, even Timothy Geithner could do this one and get it on time.
Rick Perry
#2. This crisis exposed very significant problems in the financial systems of the United States and some other major economies. Innovation got too far out in front of the knowledge of risk.
Timothy Geithner
#3. I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
E. O. Wilson
#4. The choice is between which mistake is easier to correct: underdoing it or overdoing it.
Timothy Geithner
#5. As financial markets continue to broaden and deepen, the behavior of asset prices will play an important role in the formulation of monetary policy going forward, perhaps a more important role than in the past.
Timothy Geithner
#6. You ready?" he turned to face me.
"Ready as I'm going to get," I smiled and wished like hell I'd brought a hat. I hate that his hair always looks better than mine.
P.J. Nunn
#7. You ought to be ashamed of yourself, running around, not married, staying out all night. Ashamed!" "Ashamed!" my grandmother echoed. Good to know they still agreed on things after forty-three years of marriage.
Jeaniene Frost
#8. There is a basic lesson on financial crises that governments tend to wait too long, underestimate the risks, want to do too little. And it ultimately gets away from them, and they end up spending more money, causing much more damage to the economy.
Timothy Geithner
#9. The sentences I write have their roots in song and poetry, and take their bearings from music and painting, as much as from the need to impart mere information, or mirror anything. I am not a realist writer, even if I seem like one.
Colm Toibin
#10. Around here, I'm pretty sure 'us' means Texans, and 'them' means the other seven billion on the planet.
Marcus Sakey
#11. Some of the hardest battles we fight are those against the demons of our past, over which we have no control.
Charles F. Glassman
#12. [T]o live not with hands clenched to grasp, to strike, to hold tight to a life that is always slipping away the more tightly we hold it, but ... to live with the hands stretched out both to give and receive with gladness.
Frederick Buechner
#13. The government can help, but we need to make this transition now to a recovery led by private investment, private.
Timothy Geithner
#14. The rest of the world needs the US economy and financial system to recover in order for it to revive. We remain at the center of global economic activity with financial and trade ties to every region of the globe.
Timothy Geithner
#15. Monetary policy itself cannot sensibly be directed at reducing imbalances.
Timothy Geithner
#16. This crisis is not simply a more severe version of the usual business cycle recession, the typical downturn in which economies ultimately adjust and stabilize.
Timothy Geithner
#17. Happy indeed are the arahants! No craving can be found in them. Cut off is the conceit 'I am,' Burst asunder is delusion's net.
Gautama Buddha
#18. Some think that by preparing to deal with crises you make them more likely. I think the wiser judgment is the contrary. In this area at least, if you want peace or stability, it's better to prepare for war or instability.
Timothy Geithner
#19. The IMF was a more formal and less fun place to work than Treasury. The meetings were endless, with crushing bureaucracy, an intrusive and fractious executive board, an appalling amount of paper, and a lot of factional conflict among various fiefdoms.
Timothy F. Geithner
#20. Everybody has a story. It's like families. You might not know who they are, might have lost them, but they exist all the same. You might drift apart or you might turn your back on them, but you can't say you haven't got them. Same goes for stories.
Diane Setterfield
#21. The plausible outcomes range from the gradual and benign to the more precipitous and damaging.
Timothy Geithner
#22. making judgments under the pressure of a crisis, about weighing the relative merits of various choices with potentially catastrophic outcomes.
Timothy F. Geithner
#23. Never before in modern times has so much of the world been simultaneously hit by a confluence of economic and financial turmoil such as we are now living through.
Timothy Geithner
#24. The recognition that things that are not sustainable will eventually come to an end does not give us much of a guide to whether the transition will be calm or exciting.
Timothy Geithner
#25. In the financial system we have today, with less risk concentrated in banks, the probability of systemic financial crises may be lower than in traditional bank-centered financial systems.
Timothy Geithner
#26. We will not support returning Fannie and Freddie to the role they played before conservatorship, where they fought to take market share from private competitors while enjoying the privilege of government support.
Timothy Geithner
#27. He didn't know why, but seeing her made him feel like a man. She was something out of a dream - a dream in which he was not a spoiled young prince, but a king.
Sarah J. Maas
#28. I grew up in the Ukraine 'til I was about 7, and then I moved to L.A.
Mila Kunis
#29. We have parts of our system which are overwhelmed by regulation. It wasn't the absence of regulation that was the problem. It was despite the presence of regulation you got huge risks built up.
Timothy Geithner
#30. It is very important for people to understand that the United States of America and no country around the world can devalue its way to prosperity, to be competitive. It is not a viable, feasible strategy, and we will not engage in it.
Timothy Geithner
#31. Most consequential choices involve shades of gray, and some fog is often useful in getting things done.
Timothy Geithner
#33. I believe deeply that it's very important to the United States, to the economic health of the United States, that we maintain a strong dollar.
Timothy Geithner
#35. I think we're not going to preserve Fannie and Freddie in anything like their current form. We're going to have to bring fundamental change to that market.
Timothy Geithner
#36. We believe in a strong dollar ... Chinese financial assets are very safe.
Timothy Geithner
#37. I personally believe that there's going to be a good case for the government preserving some type of guarantee to make sure that people have the ability to borrow to finance a house even in a very damaging recession. I think there's going to be a good case for that.
Timothy Geithner
#38. Looking past the immediate crisis, a more resilient system must be built on stronger and better designed shock absorbers, both in the major institutions and in the infrastructure of the financial system.
Timothy Geithner
#39. The substantial uncertainty about the path of asset price movements going forward necessarily reduces the case for altering policy in advance of the move.
Timothy Geithner
#40. Jace's clothes had been clean,stylish,ordinary. Sebastian had been wearing a long black wool trench coat that had looked expensive.
Like an evil Burbeery ad, Simon said when she was done.
Cassandra Clare
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