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Now, I only play very occasionally, and in fact, more piano than clarinet or sax.

Alan Greenspan

Amateurs want to be right. Professionals want to make money.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Amateur Money Professional Right
I was raising the question on the side with Governor Mullins of what would happen if the Treasury sold a little gold in this market.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Gold Governor Happen Little Market Question Raise Treasury
I have one other issue I’d like to throw on the table. I hesitate to do it, but let me tell you some of the issues that are involved here.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Hesitate Issue Other Some Table Throw
Protectionism will do little to create jobs and if foreigners retaliate, we will surely lose jobs.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Create Foreigner Job Little Lose Protectionism Retaliate Surely
These days, even out of office, I still read economic reports.
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Day Economic Office Out Read Report
The use of a growing array of derivatives and the related application of more-sophisticated approaches to measuring and managing risk are key factors underpinning the greater resilience of our largest financial institutions…
ALAN GREENSPAN

Application Approach Derivative Grow More Relate Sophisticate Use
In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value.
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Absence Confiscation God Inflation Protect Save
To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education – literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Basic Communication Education Foundation Importance Learn Solid Soon Succeed
Before I met Ayn Rand, I was a logical positivist, and accordingly,
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Accordingly Before Logical Met People Positivist
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.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Cannot Cause Far Forecast Future Go People Realize Probability
In an economy that already has lost some momentum, one must remain alert to the possibility that greater caution and weakening asset values in financial markets could signal or precipitate an excessive softening in household and business spending.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Already Asset Business Caution Economy Great Lost Momentum Must Possibly Predictable Remain Spend Weakness
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.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Economic Knowledge Preeminent Remain Transform Value
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 GREENSPAN

Able Content Leave Measure Own Succeeded True
Without calling the overall national issue a bubble, it’s pretty clear that it’s an unsustainable underlying pattern.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Buddle Call Clear Issue National Overall Pattern Pretty Unsustainable Without
I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Acknowledge Country Inconvenient Large Saddened
When trust is lost, a nation’s ability to transact business is palpably undermined.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Ability Business Loss Nation Palpably Transact Trust Undermined

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