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 GREENSPANNo matter how skillful the trading scheme, over the long haul, abnormal returns are sustained only through abnormal exposure to risk.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.
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We need, in effect, to make the phantom ‘lock-boxes’ around the trust fund real.
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What an ideology is is a conceptual framework with the way people deal with reality.
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American consumers might benefit if lenders provided greater mortgage product alternatives to the traditional fixed-rate mortgage.
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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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By far the most significant event in finance during the past decade has been the extraordinary development and expansion of financial derivatives.
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But how do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values, which then become subject to unexpected and prolonged contractions as they have in Japan over the past decade?
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If prices go down, we will have problems – problems in the sense of spillover to other areas.
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The probability of ten consecutive heads is 0.1 percent; thus, when you have millions of coin tossers, or investors, in the end there will be thousands of very successful practitioners of coin tossing, or stock picking.
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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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Excessive optimism shows the seeds of its own reversal in the form of imbalances that tend to grow over time.
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I believe that the general growth in large [financial] institutions have occurred in the context of an underlying structure of markets in which many of the larger risks are dramatically — I should say, fully — hedged.
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Then fear hits, and it comes down very sharply. When I started to look at that.
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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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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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