Alan Greenspan

You have to really stretch your imagination to infer what the intrinsic value of Bitcoin is. I haven't been able to do…

— Alan Greenspan

Anyone willing to do what is required to become president of the United States is thereby barred from taking that office. I'm…

— Alan Greenspan

In general, corruption tends to exist whenever governments have favors to extend, or something to sell.

— Alan Greenspan

You can't have the capitalist system if an increasing number of people think it is unjust.

— Alan Greenspan

No matter how skillful the trading scheme, over the long haul, abnormal returns are sustained only through abnormal exposure to risk.

— Alan Greenspan

Regulation of derivatives transactions that are privately negotiated by professionals is unnecessary.

— Alan Greenspan

The recent period has been marked by a transformation to an economy that is more productive as competitive forces become increasingly intense…

— Alan Greenspan

Regulation - which is based on force and fear - undermines the moral base of business dealings. It becomes cheaper to bribe…

— Alan Greenspan

“There are errors in this book. I do not know where they are. If I did they wouldn't be there. But with…

— Alan Greenspan

The person I liked the best was Gerald R. Ford. He was the most decent man in politics I ever had any…

— Alan Greenspan

There is a huge number of people outside our borders who would love to come here. In fact, many of them come…

— Alan Greenspan

Markets do very weird things because it reacts to how people behave, and sometimes people are a little screwy.

— Alan Greenspan

When trust is lost, a nation's ability to transact business is palpably undermined.

— Alan Greenspan

Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the 'hidden' confiscation of wealth. Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It…

— Alan Greenspan

And whatever their publicized angst over Saddam Hussein's 'weapons of mass destruction,' American and British authorities were also concerned about violence in…

— Alan Greenspan

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

— Alan Greenspan

History cannot be reduced to a set of statistics and probabilities.

— Alan Greenspan

Institutions of the newer participants in global finance had not been tested, until recently...recent crisis have underscored certain financial structure vulnerabilities that…

— Alan Greenspan

But rules cannot substitute for character.

— Alan Greenspan

If I've made myself clear, I've misspoken.

— Alan Greenspan

Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse.

— Alan Greenspan

Europe is very critical to the United States in the sense not only do we have a fourth of our exports there,…

— Alan Greenspan

“under the gold standard, a free banking system stands as the protector of an economy's stability and balanced growth... The abandonment of…

— Alan Greenspan

The central focus of what we are doing at the Fed is to keep inflation from accelerating - and preferably decelerating.

— Alan Greenspan

Anything that we can do to raise personal savings is very much in the interest of this country.

— Alan Greenspan