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 GREENSPANAt the risk of some oversimplification, if the skill composition of our work force meshed fully with the needs of our increasingly complex capital-stock, wage-skill differentials would be stable.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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People dont realize that we cannot forecast the future. What we can do is have probabilities of what causes what, but thats as far as we go. And Ive had a very successful career as a forecaster, starting in 1948 forward.
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It is regrettably the way human nature functions, whether we like it or not. What successful economies do is keep it to a minimum.
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The number of mistakes I have made are just awesome. There is no number large enough to account for that.
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Derivatives have permitted the unbundling of financial risks.
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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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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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The gut-feel of the 55-year old trader is more important than the mathematical elegance of the 25-year old genius.
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Cash is available and we should use that in larger amounts, as is necessary, to solve the problems of the stress of this.
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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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And she always has so much fun doing it. We make a good team.
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The number one problem in today’s generation and economy is the lack of financial literacy.
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Senator, we are groping for understanding, the knowledge you assume I possess doesn’t exist’.
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Skilled shortages in America exist because we are shielding our skilled labor force from world competition. [Visa quotas] have been substituted for the wage pricing mechanism.
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There is no evidence that the business cycle has been repealed.
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Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse.
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