Although the outlook is clouded by a number of uncertainties, the central tendencies of the projections .. imply continued good economic performance in the United States.
ALAN GREENSPANSenator, we are groping for understanding, the knowledge you assume I possess doesn’t exist’.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
-
-
Regulation – which is based on force and fear – undermines the moral base of business dealings. It becomes cheaper to bribe a building inspector than to meet his standards of construction. Protection of the consumer by regulation is thus illusory.
ALAN GREENSPAN -
Remember what we’re looking at. Gold is a currency. It is still, by all evidence, a premier currency, that no fiat currency, including the dollar, can match.
ALAN GREENSPAN -
Everyone has one. You have to, to exist you need an ideology. The question is whether it is accurate or not.
ALAN GREENSPAN -
In general, corruption tends to exist whenever governments have favors to extend, or something to sell.
ALAN GREENSPAN -
I didn’t believe in absolutes, moral or otherwise. If I couldn’t prove a proposition with facts and figures, it was without merit.
ALAN GREENSPAN -
If we are dealing with psychology, then the thermometers one uses to measure it have an effect.
ALAN GREENSPAN -
American consumers might benefit if lenders provided greater mortgage product alternatives to the traditional fixed-rate mortgage.
ALAN GREENSPAN -
In an economy that already has lost some momentum, one must remain alert to the possibility that greater caution and weakening asset values in financial markets could signal or precipitate an excessive softening in household and business spending.
ALAN GREENSPAN -
I don’t know where the stock market is going, but I will say this, that if it continues higher, this will do more to stimulate the economy than anything we’ve been talking about today or anything anybody else was talking about.
ALAN GREENSPAN -
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 GREENSPAN -
The gut-feel of the 55-year old trader is more important than the mathematical elegance of the 25-year old genius.
ALAN GREENSPAN -
Senator, we are groping for understanding, the knowledge you assume I possess doesn’t exist’.
ALAN GREENSPAN -
No matter how skillful the trading scheme, over the long haul, abnormal returns are sustained only through abnormal exposure to risk.
ALAN GREENSPAN -
There are no easy choices. Easy choices are long gone.
ALAN GREENSPAN -
But material success is possible in this world and far more satisfying when it comes without exploiting others.
ALAN GREENSPAN






