Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" I'm a straightforward person. I like to be direct with people. "
Henry Paulson
Like
People
Person
Related Quotes:
" Predators, they're the best coal miners' canary. When they're gone, you've got a sick ecosystem. "
Henry Paulson
Ecosystem
Best
You
" When you have a big, ugly problem, there's never going to be a neat, elegant solution that is totally painless or without a cost. "
Henry Paulson
Solution
Never
Big
" I think it is asking a lot for regulators to be perfect - because they won't be. "
Henry Paulson
Because
Perfect
I Think
" If the financial system collapses, it's really, really hard to put it back together again. "
Henry Paulson
Together
System
Hard
" China has a more assertive, proactive foreign policy as its interests are growing around the world. "
Henry Paulson
Growing
More
Policy
" Non-bank financial institutions provide credit that is essential to U.S. businesses and consumers. "
Henry Paulson
Credit
Financial
Provide
" As our relationship with China grows and matures, tensions will naturally emerge. "
Henry Paulson
China
Grows
Our
" I look forward to the day when China has a truly market-determined solution... To get there, you need to have a currency that is market-determined, an open capital market, and you are going to need a competitive, open financial system. "
Henry Paulson
Financial
Need
Look
" I have always tried to live by the philosophy that when there is a big problem that needs fixing, you should run towards it, rather than away from it. "
Henry Paulson
Philosophy
You
Big
" I was secretary of the Treasury when the credit bubble burst, so I think it's fair to say that I know a little bit about risk, assessing outcomes, and problem-solving. "
Henry Paulson
Risk
Know
Say
" I was secretary of the Treasury in 2008. In that role, I had the privilege to work with many talented men and women in government and the private sector who labored to pull our nation back from the brink of disaster. "
Henry Paulson
Government
Men
Privilege
" The idea of being Treasury secretary in the abstract appealed to me, but my initial inclination was that it wasn't right for me to take that step. "
Henry Paulson
Right
Take
Abstract
" I hope to help the Indian government advance their economic reform agenda, which will benefit India's citizens and the world. "
Henry Paulson
Government
India
World
" A study by Treasury economists estimated that a country with a tax rate one percentage point lower than another country's attracts 3 percent more capital. It's not surprising then, that average OECD corporate tax rates have trended steadily downward. "
Henry Paulson
Than
Country
Tax
" As I talk with the Chinese on currency, I encourage them to move much more quickly with opening up their capital markets to competition, because I don't believe the world is going to give them as much time as they would like. "
Henry Paulson
Talk
Time
World
" I know the automakers are important to the United States. We care about the automobile industry. "
Henry Paulson
Know
About
Automobile
" An open, competitive, and liberalized financial market can effectively allocate scarce resources in a manner that promotes stability and prosperity far better than governmental intervention. "
Henry Paulson
Prosperity
Financial
Far
" I've never been antiregulation. I've always believed that raw, unregulated capitalism doesn't work. "
Henry Paulson
Been
Always
Capitalism
" Many of the Western democracies - including the U.S. - have a problem that voters want benefits they don't want to pay for. "
Henry Paulson
Benefits
Pay
Problem
" I do not believe the United States and the Americans are going to let Donald Trump become president... I think the challenge is Donald Trump, with his anti-China rhetoric and with his anti-trade rhetoric, is going to make the job for all of us more difficult going forward. "
Henry Paulson
Job
Think
Believe
" Anticompetitive practices hurt Chinese private firms nearly as much as foreign ones. "
Henry Paulson
Chinese
Private
Much
" Payment systems are critically important for overall market stability. On a typical business day, U.S. payment and settlement systems settle transactions valued at over $13 trillion. "
Henry Paulson
Over
Settle
Important
" I've got to say our banking system is a safe and a sound one. And since the days when we've had federal deposit insurance in place, we haven't had a depositor who's got less than $100,000 in an account lose a penny. So the American people can be very, very confident about their accounts in our banking system. "
Henry Paulson
People
Place
Lose
" India is a vibrant nation whose strength lies in its commitment to equal rights and to speech, religious and economic freedoms that enrich the lives of all citizens. India is not only the world's largest democracy; it is also a secular, pluralistic society committed to inclusive growth. "
Henry Paulson
Growth
Commitment
Strength
" From the time the kids were in upper grade school and middle school, we took trips over the Christmas break to nature-focused places, such as the Okefenokee Swamp and Cumberland Island in Georgia; Costa Rica; Maho Bay campground in St. John, Virgin Islands; the llanos of Venezuela; the southern coast and highlands of Belize. "
Henry Paulson
Time
Places
Christmas
" I will never apologize for changing the approach or strategy when the facts change. "
Henry Paulson
Will
Never
Facts
" Regulation needs to catch up with innovation. "
Henry Paulson
Innovation
Catch
Needs
" I can't help but think what would have happened if a divisive character such as Trump were president during the 2008 financial crisis, at a time when leadership, compromise, and careful analysis were critical. "
Henry Paulson
Think
Leadership
Character
" A Fed loan to Lehman Brothers would not have prevented a bankruptcy. "
Henry Paulson
Would
Brothers
Bankruptcy
" A single agency responsible for systemic risk would be accountable in a way that no regulator was in the run-up to the 2008 crisis. With access to all necessary information to monitor the markets, this regulator would have a better chance of identifying and limiting the impact of future speculative bubbles. "
Henry Paulson
Information
Future
Chance