Amateurs want to be right. Professionals want to make money.
ALAN GREENSPANIf I say something which you understand fully in this regard, I probably made a mistake.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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The companies could hire the educated workers they need. And those workers would compete with high-income people, driving more income equality.
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Was sort of intellectually shocked. Contagion is the critical phenomenon which causes the thing to fall apart.
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Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights.
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This decade is strewn with examples of bright people who thought they built a better mousetrap that could consistently extract abnormal returns from the financial markets.
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There is no evidence that the business cycle has been repealed.
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I think that real pressure is going to occur not by the initiation by the Federal Reserve, but by the markets themselves.
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The more flexible an economy, the greater its ability to self-correct in response to inevitable, often unanticipated, disturbances and thus to contain the size and consequences of cyclical imbalances.
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We cannot rule out a situation in which a preemptive policy tightening becomes necessary.
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I was raising the question on the side with Governor Mullins of what would happen if the Treasury sold a little gold in this market.
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The true measure of a career is to be able to be content, even proud, that you succeeded through your own endeavors without leaving a trail of casualties in your wake.
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If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.
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I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.
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The problem is not lack of regulation but unrealistic expectations. What we confront in reality is uncertainty, some of it frighteningly so…
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I’m a plain soap kind of guy.
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It’s a bubble. It has to have intrinsic value. You have to really stretch your imagination to infer what the intrinsic value of Bitcoin is. I haven’t been able to do it. Maybe somebody else can.
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If I’ve made myself clear, I’ve misspoken.
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Senator, if I seem clear to you, you must have misunderstood me’.
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There is no safe store of value. Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the hidden confiscation of wealth.
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The process of innovation is, of course, never ending.
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As long as we issue fiat currency, I see no alternative to a legal tender law.
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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.
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Gold still represents the ultimate form of payment in the world.
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And whatever their publicized angst over Saddam Hussein’s ‘weapons of mass destruction.
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Without calling the overall national issue a bubble, it’s pretty clear that it’s an unsustainable underlying pattern.
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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.
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I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well.
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