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Top 15 Raghuram G. Rajan Quotes (2025 Update)

Raghuram G. Rajan Quote: “Finance is not just about lending, it is about recovering loans also.”

1. “Finance is not just about lending, it is about recovering loans also.”

— Raghuram G. Rajan

Raghuram G. Rajan Quote: “We have all been hacked, the only question is whether you know it or you don’t’.”

2. “We have all been hacked, the only question is whether you know it or you don’t’.”

— Raghuram G. Rajan

Raghuram G. Rajan Quote: “Excessive rural credit was one of the important causes of bank failure during the Great Depression.”

3. “Excessive rural credit was one of the important causes of bank failure during the Great Depression.”

— Raghuram G. Rajan

Raghuram G. Rajan Quote: “No institution is bigger than the people who work for it.”

4. “No institution is bigger than the people who work for it.”

— Raghuram G. Rajan

Raghuram G. Rajan Quote: “A book is almost always a collective effort, even if it has only a single author.”

5. “A book is almost always a collective effort, even if it has only a single author.”

— Raghuram G. Rajan

Raghuram G. Rajan Quote: “Policy making invariably involves taking measured risks in the face of uncertainty, for one has neither a prior template nor the luxury of indecision.”

6. “Policy making invariably involves taking measured risks in the face of uncertainty, for one has neither a prior template nor the luxury of indecision.”

— Raghuram G. Rajan

Raghuram G. Rajan Quote: “India is becoming a large middle income country, too complex and varied to be controlled centrally. The government will need to withdraw from occupying the commanding heights of the economy, confining itself to providing public goods and the governing framework, and leaving economic activity to the people.”

7. “India is becoming a large middle income country, too complex and varied to be controlled centrally. The government will need to withdraw from occupying the commanding heights of the economy, confining itself to providing public goods and the governing framework, and leaving economic activity to the people.”

— Raghuram G. Rajan

Raghuram G. Rajan Quote: “I thought there might be some grand design I did not understand, but the government’s policy clearly was not working, because India was still poor. I was determined to learn more, so I became interested in economics. This book is another unintended consequence of the government’s policies.”

8. “I thought there might be some grand design I did not understand, but the government’s policy clearly was not working, because India was still poor. I was determined to learn more, so I became interested in economics. This book is another unintended consequence of the government’s policies.”

— Raghuram G. Rajan

Raghuram G. Rajan Quote: “Government, even in a democracy, can be captured by a small, well-organized class that has little interest in seeing broad-based access to finance.”

9. “Government, even in a democracy, can be captured by a small, well-organized class that has little interest in seeing broad-based access to finance.”

— Raghuram G. Rajan

Raghuram G. Rajan Quote: “We have long understood that it is not income that matters but consumption. Stripped to its essentials, the argument is that if somehow the consumption of middle-class householders keeps up, if they can afford a new car every few years and the occasional exotic holiday, perhaps they will pay less attention to their stagnant monthly paychecks.”

10. “We have long understood that it is not income that matters but consumption. Stripped to its essentials, the argument is that if somehow the consumption of middle-class householders keeps up, if they can afford a new car every few years and the occasional exotic holiday, perhaps they will pay less attention to their stagnant monthly paychecks.”

— Raghuram G. Rajan

Raghuram G. Rajan Quote: “It involves considerable change, and change is risky. But as India develops, not changing is even riskier. We have to keep what is good about our system, of which there is a tremendous amount, even while acting differently where warranted.”

11. “It involves considerable change, and change is risky. But as India develops, not changing is even riskier. We have to keep what is good about our system, of which there is a tremendous amount, even while acting differently where warranted.”

— Raghuram G. Rajan

Raghuram G. Rajan Quote: “Autobiographies are always written as if the author had it all mapped out with perfect foresight, ignoring the risks and uncertainties at that time. This misleads, as much as those beautiful photographs of a past holiday abstract from the heat, the mosquitoes, and the lack of connectivity.”

12. “Autobiographies are always written as if the author had it all mapped out with perfect foresight, ignoring the risks and uncertainties at that time. This misleads, as much as those beautiful photographs of a past holiday abstract from the heat, the mosquitoes, and the lack of connectivity.”

— Raghuram G. Rajan

Raghuram G. Rajan Quote: “Society suffers when any of the pillars weakens or strengthens overly relative to the others. Too weak the markets and society becomes unproductive, too weak a democratic community and society tends toward crony capitalism, too weak the state and society turns fearful and apathetic. Conversely, too much market and society becomes inequitable, too much community and society becomes static, and too much state and society becomes authoritarian. A balance is essential!”

13. “Society suffers when any of the pillars weakens or strengthens overly relative to the others. Too weak the markets and society becomes unproductive, too weak a democratic community and society tends toward crony capitalism, too weak the state and society turns fearful and apathetic. Conversely, too much market and society becomes inequitable, too much community and society becomes static, and too much state and society becomes authoritarian. A balance is essential!”

— Raghuram G. Rajan

Raghuram G. Rajan Quote: “Politicians today vow, “Never again!” But they will naturally focus only on dealing with a few scapegoats, not just because the system is harder to change, but also because if politicians traced the fault lines, they would find a few running through themselves.”

14. “Politicians today vow, “Never again!” But they will naturally focus only on dealing with a few scapegoats, not just because the system is harder to change, but also because if politicians traced the fault lines, they would find a few running through themselves.”

— Raghuram G. Rajan

Raghuram G. Rajan Quote: “The Indian public would benefit from more competition between banks, and banks would benefit from more freedom in decision making.”

15. “The Indian public would benefit from more competition between banks, and banks would benefit from more freedom in decision making.”

— Raghuram G. Rajan

Raghuram G. Rajan Quote: “Should the Governor disappear from public view and not speak for fear of misinterpretation, or should he take the risk in order to discharge his responsibilities?”

16. “Should the Governor disappear from public view and not speak for fear of misinterpretation, or should he take the risk in order to discharge his responsibilities?”

— Raghuram G. Rajan

Raghuram G. Rajan Quote: “Cynical as it may seem, easy credit has been used as a palliative throughout history by governments that are unable to address the deeper anxieties of the middle class directly.”

17. “Cynical as it may seem, easy credit has been used as a palliative throughout history by governments that are unable to address the deeper anxieties of the middle class directly.”

— Raghuram G. Rajan

Raghuram G. Rajan Quote: “Nationalism, coupled with great faith in the power of the government to enact domestic bargains between labor and capital, has been seen before: it was called fascism then.”

18. “Nationalism, coupled with great faith in the power of the government to enact domestic bargains between labor and capital, has been seen before: it was called fascism then.”

— Raghuram G. Rajan

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