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 GREENSPANI came to a stark realization: chronic surpluses could be almost as destabilizing as chronic deficits.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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Recent episodes in which Fed officials hinted at a shift toward higher interest rates have unleashed significant volatility in markets.
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There is no safe store of value. Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the hidden confiscation of wealth.
ALAN GREENSPANThere is no safe store of value. Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the hidden confiscation of wealth.
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Before I met Ayn Rand, I was a logical positivist, and accordingly,
ALAN GREENSPANBefore I met Ayn Rand, I was a logical positivist, and accordingly,
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It is decidedly not true that “nice guys finish last,” as that highly original American baseball philosopher, Leo Durocher, was alleged to have said.
ALAN GREENSPANIt is decidedly not true that “nice guys finish last,” as that highly original American baseball philosopher, Leo Durocher, was alleged to have said.
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There are no easy choices. Easy choices are long gone.
ALAN GREENSPANThere are no easy choices. Easy choices are long gone.
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I believe that the general growth in large [financial] institutions have occurred in the context of an underlying structure of markets in which many of the larger risks are dramatically — I should say, fully — hedged.
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The free lunch has still to be invented.
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I have long argued that paying down the national debt is beneficial for the economy.
ALAN GREENSPANI have long argued that paying down the national debt is beneficial for the economy.
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And she always has so much fun doing it. We make a good team.
ALAN GREENSPANAnd she always has so much fun doing it. We make a good team.
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And whatever their publicized angst over Saddam Hussein’s ‘weapons of mass destruction.
ALAN GREENSPANAnd whatever their publicized angst over Saddam Hussein’s ‘weapons of mass destruction.
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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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So there is no reason to suspect that the actual process of boosting rates would be any different.
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If we allow terrorism to undermine our freedom of action, we could reverse at least part of the palpable gains achieved by postwar globalization. It is incumbent upon us not to allow that to happen.
ALAN GREENSPANIf we allow terrorism to undermine our freedom of action, we could reverse at least part of the palpable gains achieved by postwar globalization. It is incumbent upon us not to allow that to happen.
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I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.
ALAN GREENSPANI am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.
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…our market system depends critically on trust-trust in the word of our colleagues and trust in the word of those with whom we do business.
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