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Top 15 Timothy Geithner Quotes (2025 Update)

Timothy Geithner Quote: “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.”

1. “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

Timothy Geithner Quote: “Most consequential choices involve shades of gray, and some fog is often useful in getting things done.”

2. “Most consequential choices involve shades of gray, and some fog is often useful in getting things done.”

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Timothy Geithner Quote: “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.”

3. “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.”

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Timothy Geithner Quote: “The choice is between which mistake is easier to correct: underdoing it or overdoing it.”

4. “The choice is between which mistake is easier to correct: underdoing it or overdoing it.”

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Timothy Geithner Quote: “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.”

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.”

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Timothy Geithner Quote: “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.”

6. “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.”

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Timothy Geithner Quote: “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.”

7. “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.”

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Timothy Geithner Quote: “The plausible outcomes range from the gradual and benign to the more precipitous and damaging.”

8. “The plausible outcomes range from the gradual and benign to the more precipitous and damaging.”

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Timothy Geithner Quote: “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.”

9. “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.”

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Timothy Geithner Quote: “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.”

10. “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.”

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Timothy Geithner Quote: “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.”

11. “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

Timothy Geithner Quote: “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.”

12. “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.”

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Timothy Geithner Quote: “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.”

13. “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.”

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Timothy Geithner Quote: “The substantial uncertainty about the path of asset price movements going forward necessarily reduces the case for altering policy in advance of the move.”

14. “The substantial uncertainty about the path of asset price movements going forward necessarily reduces the case for altering policy in advance of the move.”

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Timothy Geithner Quote: “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.”

15. “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.”

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Timothy Geithner Quote: “The government can help, but we need to make this transition now to a recovery led by private investment, private.”

16. “The government can help, but we need to make this transition now to a recovery led by private investment, private.”

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Timothy Geithner Quote: “The rating agencies were not exceedingly competent.”

17. “The rating agencies were not exceedingly competent.”

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Timothy Geithner Quote: “Financial crises require governments.”

18. “Financial crises require governments.”

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Timothy Geithner Quote: “Monetary policy itself cannot sensibly be directed at reducing imbalances.”

19. “Monetary policy itself cannot sensibly be directed at reducing imbalances.”

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