Amateurs want to be right. Professionals want to make money.
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 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.
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Fear and euphoria are dominant forces, and fear is many multiples the size of euphoria. Bubbles go up very slowly as euphoria builds.
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The process of innovation is, of course, never ending.
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Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the ‘hidden’ confiscation of wealth.
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If prices go down, we will have problems – problems in the sense of spillover to other areas.
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I made a mistake in presuming that the self-interests of organisations, specifically banks and others, were such that they were best capable of protecting their own shareholders and their equity in the firms.
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And she always has so much fun doing it. We make a good team.
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I 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.
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Protectionism will do little to create jobs and if foreigners retaliate, we will surely lose jobs.
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In the process we have created [a] privileged elite whose incomes are being supported at non-competitively high levels by immigration quotas on skilled professionals.
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No one has ever eliminated any of that stuff.
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Since I’ve become a central banker, I’ve learned to mumble with great incoherence.
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But material success is possible in this world and far more satisfying when it comes without exploiting others.
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I’m always amazed that my wife can handle different subjects – one day politics, the next day foreign policy.
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I do not deny that many appear to have succeeded in a material way by cutting corners and by manipulating associates, both in their professional and in their personal lives.
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