There is no better protection against the euro crisis than successful structural reforms in southern Europe.

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.

Within our mandate, the ECB is ready to do whatever it takes to preserve the euro. And believe me, it will be enough.

Productivity growth is the only possible way to achieve prosperity.

Governments must commit to sound economic and financial policies. This is how we ensure reform in the euro area - and our independence.

I trust the people who are working with me. I delegate.

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.

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.

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What cannot be altered must be borne not blamed.

We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.

In every affair consider what precedes and what follows, and then undertake it

Talk isn't work. Work is when you have pages in the evening that you didn't have in the morning.

Management is a curious phenomenon. It is generously paid, enormously influential, and significantly devoid of common sense

Integrity gains strength by use.

Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in eternal awareness or pure consciousness.

People put on certain clothes for certain reasons, I assume, when their closet is filled with clothes.

I never work until I have a deadline. You have to fit so much in a given day that you just don't get serious until you know when the deadline is.