Davos 2015: Top quotes from day two

At the end of the second day of the 2015 Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum, catch up on some of the most inspiring and insightful quotes.

“Resilience is about being able to look your fear in the eyes.”
Lynette Wallworth, artist

“I am confident that Europe can make it.”
Ana Botín, Chairman, Banco Santander, Spain, in Ending the Experiment

“Deflation and secular stagnation are the risks of our time.”
Lawrence Summers, Charles W. Eliot University Professor, Harvard University, USA, in Ending the Experiment

“Massive progress has been made in the last five years. More progress has to be made in terms of fiscal union and banking union.”
Christine Lagarde, Managing Director, International Monetary Fund (IMF), Washington DC, in Ending the Experiment

“Discipline, clarity and stability of agenda are the answers to populism.”
Enda Kenny, Taoiseach of Ireland, in Europe’s Twin Challenges: Growth and Stability

“Ebola did less damage than the reaction to the disease.”
Alpha Conde, President of Guinea, in Confronting the Challenge of Catastrophic Outbreaks

“Democracy must be our answer to terrorism.”
Angela Merkel, German Chancellor, in Global Responsibilities in a Digital Age

“We want money that flows, growth that flows and goods that flow, but we hate it when people cross borders.”
Hikmet Ersek, President and Chief Executive Officer, The Western Union Company, USA, in Escaping from Poverty

“We cannot and should not stop people from migration. We have to give them a better life at home. Migration is a process, not a problem.”
William Lacy Swing, Director-General, International Organization for Migration (IOM), Geneva, in Escaping from Poverty

“The low price of oil is a headwind to investments in alternative energy technologies, but it will not stop them.”
Carlos Ghosn, Chairman and Chief Executive, Renault-Nissan in The BRICS Agenda

“Globalization is incredibly efficient but also so far incredibly unjust.”
Pascal Lamy, Honorary President, Notre Europe – Jacques Delors Institute, France, in Forum Debate: Geo-economic Competition

“What is clear is that users own their data and should have control of how their data is used.”
Marissa Mayer, President and Chief Executive Officer, Yahoo, USA, in In Tech We Trust

“Social media has created a historical shift from the historically powerful to the historically powerless. Now everyone has a voice.”
Sheryl Sandberg, Chief Operating Officer and Member of the Board, Facebook, USA, in The Future of the Digital Economy

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Image: Participants using their portable devices are captured in the congress centre during the Annual Meeting 2015 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, January 22, 2015. WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM/swiss-image.ch/Photo Valeriano DiDomenico