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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More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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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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The guiding purpose of the government regulator is to prevent rather than to create something.
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Regulation of derivatives transactions that are privately negotiated by professionals is unnecessary.
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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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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 arts develop skills and habits of mind that are important for workers in the new economy of ideas.
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If we are to remain preeminent in transforming knowledge into economic value, America’s system of higher education must remain the world’s leader in generating scientific and technological breakthrough, and in meeting the challenge to educate workers.
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History cannot be reduced to a set of statistics and probabilities.
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Amateurs want to be right. Professionals want to make money.
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Significantly opening up immigration to skilled workers solves two problems.
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Greenspan, who knew so much more than most, knew far less than most supposed.
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Everyone has one. You have to, to exist you need an ideology. The question is whether it is accurate or not.
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[Republicans] swapped principle for power. They ended up with neither. They deserved to lose.
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Senator, if I seem clear to you, you must have misunderstood me’.
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If you think you understand what I am saying you do not understand what I am saying.
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