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Finance Quotes by Alan Greenspan
- By far the most significant event in finance during the past decade has been the extraordinary development and expansion of financial derivatives.
- It seems superfluous to constrain trading in some of the newer derivatives and other innovative financial contracts of the past decade. The worst have failed;…
- What we have found over the years in the marketplace is that derivatives have been an extraordinarily useful vehicle to transfer risk from those who…
- 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.
- Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse.
- To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education - literacy, both verbal and…
- Finance is wholly different from the rest the 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…
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- I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race. — Honore de Balzac
- If it isn't the sheriff, it's the finance company; I've got more attachments on me than a vacuum cleaner. — John Barrymore
- A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs. — Bernard Baruch
- I made my money by selling too soon. — Bernard Baruch
- For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation. — Charles Baudelaire
- There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or… — Jean Baudrillard
- Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it. — Henry Ward Beecher