Mario Draghi famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

If we do not resolve the euro crisis, we will all pay the price. And if we do resolve it, we will all benefit, particularly German taxpayers and savers.
-- Mario Draghi

#Benefits #Pay #Crisis
Governments must commit to sound economic and financial policies. This is how we ensure reform in the euro area - and our independence.
-- Mario Draghi

#Government #Independence #Sound
I trust the people who are working with me. I delegate.
-- Mario Draghi

#People
There is no better protection against the euro crisis than successful structural reforms in southern Europe.
-- Mario Draghi

#Successful #Europe #Southern
Within our mandate, the ECB is ready to do whatever it takes to preserve the euro. Believe me, it will be enough.
-- Mario Draghi

#Believe #Enough #Whatever It Takes
In the European context tax rates are high and government expenditure is focused on current expenditure. A 'good' consolidation is one where taxes are lower and the lower government expenditure is on infrastructures and other investments.
-- Mario Draghi

#Government #Investment #Infrastructure
Interest rates do not have to be identical across the whole euro area, but it is unacceptable if major differences arise from broken capital markets or concern about a euro area break-up.
-- Mario Draghi

#Differences #Broken #Break
Productivity growth is the only possible way to achieve prosperity.
-- Mario Draghi

#Growth #Way #Prosperity
We won't make the weak stronger by making the strong weaker, as a very wise man once said. That applies to the economy as well. If Germany were less competitive, the euro area as a whole would lose, because less could be produced then.
-- Mario Draghi

#Wise #Strong #Men
In Latin you say: "Repetita iuvant - to repeat is beneficial". The fewer changes made in a country, the more often I repeat my messages. And it works.
-- Mario Draghi

#Country #Latin #Messages
Europe's financial system is fragmented, although the gap in funding costs for banks within the euro area is no longer as wide as it was two years ago. But in lending the differences are still very large, and in some countries the credit flow is disrupted.
-- Mario Draghi

#Country #Differences #Years
The insurance companies do not refer to the key policy rate when they send their statements. We can only control that rate. Long-term interest rates are determined largely by global financial markets.
-- Mario Draghi

#Keys #Long #Determined

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