Anyone willing to do what is required to become president of the United States is thereby barred from taking that office. I’m only half joking
ALAN GREENSPANI was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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What an ideology is is a conceptual framework with the way people deal with reality.
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Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse.
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Everyone has one. You have to, to exist you need an ideology. The question is whether it is accurate or not.
ALAN GREENSPANEveryone has one. You have to, to exist you need an ideology. The question is whether it is accurate or not.
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Capitalism is based on self-interest and self-esteem; it holds integrity and trustworthiness as cardinal virtues and makes them pay off in the marketplace, thus demanding that men survive by means of virtue, not vices.
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I came to a stark realization: chronic surpluses could be almost as destabilizing as chronic deficits.
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The need for values is inbred. Their content is not.
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While local economies may experience significant price imbalances, a national severe price distortion seems most unlikely in the United States, given its size and diversity.
ALAN GREENSPANWhile local economies may experience significant price imbalances, a national severe price distortion seems most unlikely in the United States, given its size and diversity.
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It has been my experience that competency in mathematics, both in numerical manipulations and in understanding its conceptual foundations.
ALAN GREENSPANIt has been my experience that competency in mathematics, both in numerical manipulations and in understanding its conceptual foundations.
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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.
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Excessive optimism shows the seeds of its own reversal in the form of imbalances that tend to grow over time.
ALAN GREENSPANExcessive optimism shows the seeds of its own reversal in the form of imbalances that tend to grow over time.
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The use of a growing array of derivatives and the related application of more-sophisticated approaches to measuring and managing risk are key factors underpinning the greater resilience of our largest financial institutions…
ALAN GREENSPANThe use of a growing array of derivatives and the related application of more-sophisticated approaches to measuring and managing risk are key factors underpinning the greater resilience of our largest financial institutions…
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It’s not for anything other than an escape from what is perceived to be a fiat money system, paper money, that seems to be deteriorating.
ALAN GREENSPANIt’s not for anything other than an escape from what is perceived to be a fiat money system, paper money, that seems to be deteriorating.
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The number one problem in today’s generation and economy is the lack of financial literacy.
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I’m not denying that monopolies are terrible things, but I am denying that it is readily easy to resolve them through legislation of that nature.
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I didn’t believe in absolutes, moral or otherwise. If I couldn’t prove a proposition with facts and figures, it was without merit.
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