To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education – literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills.
ALAN GREENSPANTo succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education – literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills.
ALAN GREENSPANThe probability of ten consecutive heads is 0.1 percent; thus, when you have millions of coin tossers, or investors, in the end there will be thousands of very successful practitioners of coin tossing, or stock picking.
ALAN GREENSPANWhen trust is lost, a nation’s ability to transact business is palpably undermined.
ALAN GREENSPANAnd whatever their publicized angst over Saddam Hussein’s ‘weapons of mass destruction.
ALAN GREENSPANGold still represents the ultimate form of payment in the world.
ALAN GREENSPANThe worst have failed; investors no longer fund them and are not likely to in the future.
ALAN GREENSPANThe recent evidence increasingly suggests that an economic expansion is already well under way, although an array of influences unique to this business cycle seems likely to moderate its speed.
ALAN GREENSPANI’m a plain soap kind of guy.
ALAN GREENSPANI was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I could rise in the music business, so I left the band and enrolled at New York University.
ALAN GREENSPANWithout the triggers, that tax cut is irreponsible fiscal policy. Eventually, I think that will be the consensus view.
ALAN GREENSPANIf you think you understand what I am saying you do not understand what I am saying.
ALAN GREENSPANThe Iraq War is largely about oil.
ALAN GREENSPANSince I’ve become a central banker, I’ve learned to mumble with great incoherence.
ALAN GREENSPANSome succeed for a time. But while there may occasionally be mis-configurations among market prices that allow abnormal returns, they do not persist.
ALAN GREENSPANDeficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth.If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.
ALAN GREENSPANThe very nature of finance is that it cannot be profitable unless it is significantly leveraged… and as long as there is debt, there can be failure and contagion.
ALAN GREENSPAN