It has been my experience that competency in mathematics, both in numerical manipulations and in understanding its conceptual foundations, enhances a person's ability to handle the more ambiguous and qualitative relationships that dominate our day-to-day financial decision-making. Alan Greenspan More Alan Greenspan Quotes 0
I do not deny that many appear to have succeeded in a material way by cutting corners and by manipulating associates, both in their professional and in their personal lives. But material success is possible in this world and far more satisfying when it comes without exploiting others. Alan Greenspan More Alan Greenspan Quotes 0
It is decidedly not true that "nice guys finish last," as that highly original American baseball philosopher, Leo Durocher, was alleged to have said. Alan Greenspan More Alan Greenspan Quotes 0
The more flexible an economy, the greater its ability to self-correct in response to inevitable, often unanticipated, disturbances and thus to contain the size and consequences of cyclical imbalances. Alan Greenspan More Alan Greenspan Quotes 0
We have a moral obligation to use our prosperity at this moment, especially to uplift communities in poverty. Alan Greenspan More Alan Greenspan Quotes 0
In retrospect, I see nothing that we did that was inappropriate in terms of policy. Alan Greenspan More Alan Greenspan Quotes 0
If we delay, the adjustments could be abrupt and painful. Alan Greenspan More Alan Greenspan Quotes 0
There is a palpable unease that businesses and jobs are being drained from the United States, with potentially adverse long-run implications for unemployment and the standard of living of the average American. Alan Greenspan More Alan Greenspan Quotes 0
How do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values? ... We should not underestimate or become complacent about the complexity of the interactions of asset markets and the economy. Alan Greenspan More Alan Greenspan Quotes 0
How do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values..... Alan Greenspan More Alan Greenspan Quotes 0
Emperors and armies come and go, ... but unless they leave new ideas in their wake, they are of passing historic consequence. The short list of intellectuals who have materially advanced the betterment of civilization unquestionably includes Adam Smith. Alan Greenspan More Alan Greenspan Quotes 0
Look at it! Look at it, damn you! This is the result of your consistent, persistent, grinding, impoverishing inflation, you despicable loathsome morons! Alan Greenspan More Alan Greenspan Quotes 0
could prove destabilizing to our financial system as a whole and in the end could seriously diminish the availability of home mortgage funds. Alan Greenspan More Alan Greenspan Quotes 0