Best Alan Greenspan Quotations
- Before I met Ayn Rand, I was a logical positivist, and accordingly, I didn't believe in absolutes, moral or otherwise. If I couldn't prove a… Absolutes
- 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… Abandonment
- But rules cannot substitute for character. Cannot Substitute
- It is very difficult to predict when a bond crisis could happen. Bond
- Much fiscal policy is implemented, not through spending increases, but through tax credits and other so-called tax expenditures. The markets should respond to them as… Activity
- Diplomacy is really far less important than the stock movements within Russia. Diplomacy
- The person I liked the best was Gerald R. Ford. He was the most decent man in politics I ever had any relationships with. Any
- I get so engaged when I have a problem you cannot solve that I just cannot break away from what I am doing - I… Break
- Finance is wholly different from the rest the economy. Economy
- The very nature of finance is that it cannot be profitable unless it is significantly leveraged... and as long as there is debt, there can… Contagion
- The only way you get economic progress, real standards of living moving higher, is to have the savings of the society continuously invested in the… Continuously
- There are winners and there are losers. And as much as we would like to help the losers, if we do it in the way… Capital
- Markets do very weird things because it reacts to how people behave, and sometimes people are a little screwy. Behave
- I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business… Amateur
- Forecasting our futures is built into our psyches because we will soon have to manage that future. We have no choice. No matter how often… Built
- Corruption, embezzlement, fraud, these are all characteristics which exist everywhere. It is regrettably the way human nature functions, whether we like it or not. What… All
- The culture of Greece is not the same as the culture of Germany, and to fuse them into a single unit is extremely difficult. Culture
- One of the major problems with China is that its innovation is largely borrowed technology. Borrowed
- Chinese productivity is the highest in the world but the way they do it is by borrowing the technology from abroad, either by joint ventures… Abroad
- Fear and euphoria are dominant forces, and fear is many multiples the size of euphoria. Bubbles go up very slowly as euphoria builds. Then fear… Apart
- Unless you are willing to compromise, society cannot live together. Cannot Live
- The problem is you cannot have free global trade with highly restrictive, regulated domestic markets. Domestic
- What a sound money system does is to stabilize all the elements in it, and reduces the uncertainty that people confront. And the one thing… Activity
- There is a limit to how much the United States Treasury can borrow. Borrow
- Increased jobs are the consequence of increased trade. Increasing jobs more than output implies a fall in productivity and standards of living. That surely cannot… Consequence
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