Alan Greenspan Quote by Nassim Nicholas Taleb Download Open image “Alan Greenspan is unskilled; you don't take the unskilled seriously.” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Alan Greenspan
No man bears more responsibility for the present worldwide financial crisis and coming depression than Alan Greenspan. — Bill Bonner Copy Share Image
“No one should ever take them self or others too seriously." ~R. Alan Woods [2012]” — R. Alan Woods Copy Share Image
I actually never knew Peter Green but I do respect his early work very much. — Ken Hensley Copy Share Image
A man who takes himself too seriously will find that no one else takes him seriously. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
You have to take your job seriously, but you can't take yourself seriously. — Brent Musburger Copy Share Image
But the trouble is that he [Alan Greenspan] had been an Ayn Rander. You can take the boy out of the cult but you… — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
I take every role seriously. Personally, I never look at any role as Michael White. I've done that my entire life. — Michael Jai White Copy Share Image
I, along with the critics, have never taken myself very seriously — Elizabeth Taylor Copy Share Image
There is an enormous thrust in our time to have a simple answer. And that simple answer is that all depends on Alan Greenspan… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
If you take yourself too seriously, you've got no chance in this job. You cannot take yourself seriously. — William Regal Copy Share Image
Wittgenstein's ruler: Unless you have confidence in the ruler's reliability, if you use a ruler to measure a table you may also be using… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
In politics we face the choice between warmongering, nation-state loving, big-business agents on one hand; and risk-blind, top-down, epistemic arrogant big servants of large… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
My nightmare scenario is that the government saves Citibank once again, as well as the other banks, and business resumes as usual. Then, the… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Using, as an excuse, others' failure of common sense is in itself a failure of common sense. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
You know, children philosophize more than adults - and they are critical of adults. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“Suckers think that you cure greed with money, addiction with substances, expert problems with experts, banking with bankers, economics with economists, and debt crises… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“One needs to go out and buy a lottery ticket in order to win. Does it mean that the work involved in the trip… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Individuals should think about the worst-case scenarios and plan for them. The world will be crazier than you think it will be. Put money… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“If you are looking for your misplaced wallet in your living room, in a trial and error mode, you exercise rationality by not looking… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“Most humans manage to squander their free time, as free time makes them dysfunctional, lazy, and unmotivated—the busier they get, the more active they… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
We learn the most from fools ... yet we pay them back with the worst ingratitude. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“The job of the Federal Reserve is “to know when to remove the punch bowl at the party.” Under Alan Greenspan’s leadership its motto… — Said Elias Dawlabani Copy Share Image
[Ben Carson] critics say that your inexperience shows. You've suggested that the Baltic States are not a part of NATO, you were unfamiliar with… — Megyn Kelly Copy Share Image
Remember, Alan Greenspan was a member of Ayn Rand's collective. To understand this is to understand why we are doomed with the Federal Reserve — Peter Fonda Copy Share Image
“A brick could be used as a thick bumper sticker. Then if you get in a crash, you can blame it on the housing… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“An ideology is a conceptual framework, the way people deal with reality. Everyone has one. You have one. To exist, you need an ideology."… — Kathryn Schulz Copy Share Image
“Alan Greenspan, who would later become the Federal Reserve chairman, wrote in 1966: [T]he earnings saved by the productive members of the society lose value in terms of goods. When the economy’s books are finally balanced, one finds that this loss in value represents the goods purchased by the government for welfare and other purposes. . . . In the… — Andrew P. Napolitano Copy Share
“The phone rang. It was a familiar voice. It was Alan Greenspan. Paul O'Neill had tried to stay in touch with people who had served under Gerald Ford, and he'd been reasonably conscientious about it. Alan Greenspan was the exception. In his case, the effort was constant and purposeful. When Greenspan was the chairman of Ford's Council of Economic Advisers,… — Ron Suskind Copy Share
There is an enormous thrust in our time to have a simple answer. And that simple answer is that all depends on Alan Greenspan… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
“Unlike old-fashioned Britain, where Tony Blair recruited Lord Levy to encourage his 'Friends of Israel' to donate their money to a party that was… — Gilad Atzmon Copy Share Image
The dirty little secret is that both houses of Congress are irrelevant. ... America's domestic policy is now being run by Alan Greenspan and… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
Alan Greenspan is going to go down in history as one of the worst Federal Reserve chairmen ever. — Bill Foster Copy Share Image
“Back in July 2003, he’d written them a long essay on the causes and consequences of what he took to be a likely housing… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image