18 James Wolfensohn Quotes for You to Enjoy

James Wolfensohn

Australian Businessman

Born: Dec 1, 1933

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The interesting thing about debt in most cases is that you have to pay it back. So if you build an overhang of debt, it becomes more and more limiting in terms of the prospect that you have. James Wolfensohn

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Well the specific role of the World Bank is to be ready with financial assistance immediately after this emergency takes place because you need to reconnect water, you need to reconnect power, you need roads, you need bridges, and that has to be done urgently. James Wolfensohn

You World Water Financial Power Immediately Financial Assistance Reconnect Emergency Takes Roads Well Because Ready Role Done Bank After Place Urgently Bridges World Bank Specific Assistance Need

I was deeply concerned then, and have become more concerned since, that unless we can deal with the questions of development and the questions of poverty, there's no way that we're going to have a peaceful world for our children. James Wolfensohn

World Poverty Become Our Unless Way More Development Since Concerned Deal Questions Going Children Then Peaceful Peaceful World Deeply

So the first thing you need to do about conflict is to prevent it, and the best way of preventing it is by dealing with the question of poverty. James Wolfensohn

Best You Conflict Poverty First Way Best Way About Prevent Preventing First Thing Dealing Question The First Thing Thing Need

You can't wish away poverty overnight. James Wolfensohn

You Poverty Wish Overnight Away

China never borrowed less than $3 billion a year during my tenure. They were the most significant client. They used the Bank not just for money but for the know-how. James Wolfensohn

Money Year Significant Borrowed Never Tenure Most Know-How Client Were Than Bank Just China Used Less Billion

The Bank had never used the word 'corruption' at all until I got there, and the reason for that was, as the general counsel pointed out to me, that quite a number of our shareholders represented were not immune from corruption in their governments. James Wolfensohn

Many people of my generation grew up in developed countries thinking that the world was divided into two parts and that there was a wall round the developed world. They thought that poor people had no relevance to us. What happened on September 11 was that anybody who thought there was a wall now knows that there is no wall. James Wolfensohn

Generation People World Thought September Thinking Relevance My Generation Divided Had Developed Developed Countries Developed World Countries Knows Parts Up Wall Anybody Grew Happened Poor Poor People Us Who Many Now Round Two

I have travelled in the country enough to know that the concerns of villages in Rajasthan will be very different from the issues in the villages of Tamil Nadu. Anybody who makes a general remark about India probably doesn't know India. James Wolfensohn

Will Country Enough India About General Remark Know Concerns Makes Issues Very Anybody Different Who Villages Travelled

In a democracy, you can be right and still lose power. James Wolfensohn

Democracy You Power Lose Still Right

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