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It has been my experience that competency in mathematics, both in numerical manipulations and in understanding its conceptual foundations.

Alan Greenspan

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.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Appear Corner Cut Deny Manipulate Material Succeeded
The economy is turning, and credit comes in with a lag, .. To the extent that a number of small firms are finding it difficult to get the credit they need at a price they can afford, that’s likely to change for the better.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Better Change Come Credit Difficult Economy Extend Find Firm Lag Need Number Small Turn
Amateurs want to be right. Professionals want to make money.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Amateur Money Professional Right
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.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Better Built Decade Example Financial Market Mousetrap People
What an ideology is is a conceptual framework with the way people deal with reality.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Conceptual Del Framework Ideology People Reality
While these tendencies were no doubt in train in the “old,” pre-1990s economy, they accelerated over the past decade as a number of technologies with their roots in the cumulative innovations of the past half-century began to yield dramatic economic returns.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Accelerate Circumstance Dramatic Economic Innovation Offer Return Tendency Train
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 GREENSPAN

Distortion Economy Experience Imbalance Local National Price Seem Severe Significant
I cannot conceive of a politically feasible solution to this problem which will overdo cutting the deficit, where overdoing means harming the economy. It might be technically possible, but it is not realistic.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Cannot Conceive Cut Deficit Economy Harm Overdo Overdue Political Realistic Solution
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.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Adherence Business Deal Gain Honest Honesty Satisfaction Strict Success
By far the most significant event in finance during the past decade has been the extraordinary development and expansion of financial derivatives.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Decade Development During Event Expansion Extraordinary Far Finance Most Significant
Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Gold Insidious Process Properly Right Stand
I’m a plain soap kind of guy.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Guy Kind Plain Soap
Indeed, better risk management may be the only truly necessary element of success in banking.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Bank Better Indeed Management Necessary Only Risk Truly
It is this superlatively moral system that the welfare statists propose to improve upon by means of preventative law, snooping bureaucrats, and the chronic goad of fear.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Goad Growth Improve Mean Preventative Snoop Statics System
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.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Amateur Average Business Country Enroll Good Limit Professional Realize Soon
We will have more crises and none of them will look like this because no two crises have anything in common except human nature.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Anything Common Crise Human Like Look Nature

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