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.
ALAN GREENSPANIndeed, better risk management may be the only truly necessary element of success in banking.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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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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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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But rules cannot substitute for character.
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Corruption, embezzlement, fraud, these are all characteristics which exist everywhere.
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Significantly opening up immigration to skilled workers solves two problems.
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It keeps interest rates lower than they otherwise would be and frees savings to finance increases in the capital stock, thereby boosting productivity and real incomes.
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The abandonment of the gold standard made it possible for the welfare statists to use the banking system as a means to an unlimited expansion of credit.
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These days, even out of office, I still read economic reports.
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Enhances a person’s ability to handle the more ambiguous and qualitative relationships that dominate our day-to-day financial decision-making
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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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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.
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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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They then need to reach a judgment about the probabilities, costs, and benefits of the various possible outcomes under alternative choices for policy.
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Anyone willing to do what is required to become president of the United States is thereby barred from taking that office. I’m only half joking
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The tub helps me relax, and it’s a great place to read.
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