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I know you think you understand what you thought I said but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant
— Alan Greenspan
Alan Greenspan is unskilled; you don't take the unskilled seriously.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The United States can pay any debt it has because we can always print money to do that. So there is zero probability of default.
— Alan Greenspan
Productivity is notoriously difficult to predict.
— Alan Greenspan
It's hard to tell which assets will be toxic. The best way to ensure that only shareholders and banks feel it is have adequate capital.
— Alan Greenspan
We're a democratic society. Shutting down the government should not be on the agenda.
— Alan Greenspan
I came to a stark realization: chronic surpluses could be almost as destabilizing as chronic deficits.
— Alan Greenspan
[On reporters trying to cajole a smile from her husband, Alan Greenspan:] For a Federal Reserve chairman, that was a smile.
— Andrea Mitchell
Rules cannot take the place of character.
— Alan Greenspan
Our second big mistake - we thought that risk could be quantified. Our third big mistake - Alan Greenspan. The
— Jade Chang
No man bears more responsibility for the present worldwide financial crisis and coming depression than Alan Greenspan.
— Bill Bonner
I guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you've probably misunderstood what I've said.
— Alan Greenspan
Fear invariably and universally induces disengagement, and disengagement is negative division of labor.
— Alan Greenspan
Unless you are willing to compromise, society cannot live together.
— Alan Greenspan
If I've made myself clear, I've misspoken.
— Alan Greenspan
Amateurs want to be right. Professionals want to make money.
— Alan Greenspan
Excessive optimism sows the seeds of its own reversal.
— Alan Greenspan
Without the triggers, that tax cut is irreponsible fiscal policy. Eventually, I think that will be the consensus view.
— 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 only half joking
— Alan Greenspan
You wouldn't want Alan Greenspan to write the instructions for assembling a beach chair.
— Robert Orben
No matter how skillful the trading scheme, over the long haul, abnormal returns are sustained only through abnormal exposure to risk.
— Alan Greenspan
Cash is available and we should use that in larger amounts, as is necessary, to solve the problems of the stress of this.
— Alan Greenspan
If I say something which you understand fully in this regard, I probably made a mistake.
— Alan Greenspan
I've always argued that this country has benefited immensely from the fact that we draw people from all over the world.
— 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 it. Maybe somebody else can.
— Alan Greenspan
The process of innovation is, of course, never ending.
— Alan Greenspan
Gold still represents the ultimate form of payment in the world. Fiat money in extremis is accepted by nobody. Gold is always accepted.
— Alan Greenspan
American consumers might benefit if lenders provided greater mortgage product alternatives to the traditional fixed-rate mortgage.
— Alan Greenspan
History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.
— Alan Greenspan
Our market system depends critically on trust-trust in the word of our colleagues and trust in the word of those with whom we do business.
— Alan Greenspan
But rules cannot substitute for character.
— Alan Greenspan
The problem is you cannot have free global trade with highly restrictive, regulated domestic markets.
— Alan Greenspan
Finance is wholly different from the rest the economy.
— Alan Greenspan
There are no easy choices. Easy choices are long gone.
— Alan Greenspan
There is no evidence that the business cycle has been repealed.
— Alan Greenspan
The current financial crisis in the US is likely to be judged in retrospect as the most wrenching since the end of the Second World War.
— Alan Greenspan
The central focus of what we are doing at the Fed is to keep inflation from accelerating - and preferably decelerating.
— Alan Greenspan
The guiding purpose of the government regulator is to prevent rather than to create something.
— Alan Greenspan
Without calling the overall national issue a bubble, it's pretty clear that it's an unsustainable underlying pattern.
— Alan Greenspan
We will have more crises and none of them will look like this because no two crises have anything in common except human nature.
— Alan Greenspan
It is very difficult to predict when a bond crisis could happen.
— Alan Greenspan
I'm not denying that monopolies are terrible things, but I am denying that it is readily easy to resolve them through legislation of that nature.
— Alan Greenspan
In general, corruption tends to exist whenever governments have favors to extend, or something to sell.
— Alan Greenspan
The gut-feel of the 55-year old trader is more important than the mathematical elegance of the 25-year old genius.
— Alan Greenspan
Whatever you tax, you get less of.
— Alan Greenspan
When trust is lost, a nation's ability to transact business is palpably undermined.
— Alan Greenspan
The culture of Greece is not the same as the culture of Germany, and to fuse them into a single unit is extremely difficult.
— Alan Greenspan
Indeed, better risk management may be the only truly necessary element of success in banking.
— Alan Greenspan
If you think you understand what I am saying you do not understand what I am saying.
— Alan Greenspan
The Iraq War is largely about oil.
— Alan Greenspan
We really can't forecast all that well, and yet we pretend that we can, but we really can't.
— Alan Greenspan
The free lunch has still to be invented.
— Alan Greenspan
I'm a free-market economist from years and years back, and I've never veered from that.
— Alan Greenspan
Well, you probably will always believe there should be laws against fraud, and I don't think there is any need for a law against fraud.
— Alan Greenspan
Markets do very weird things because it reacts to how people behave, and sometimes people are a little screwy.
— Alan Greenspan
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But the trouble is that he [Alan Greenspan] had been an Ayn Rander. You can take the boy out of the cult but you can't take the cult out of the boy.
— Paul Samuelson
History cannot be reduced to a set of statistics and probabilities.
— Alan Greenspan
You can't have the capitalist system if an increasing number of people think it is unjust.
— Alan Greenspan
Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse.
— Alan Greenspan
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.
— Alan Greenspan
Protectionism will do little to create jobs and if foreigners retaliate, we will surely lose jobs.
— Alan Greenspan
There is a limit to how much the United States Treasury can borrow.
— Alan Greenspan
The purpose of a politician is to be a leader. A politician has to lead. Otherwise he's just a follower.
— Alan Greenspan
If you believe that markets operate in Alan Greenspan fashion, then you don't inquire into the details.
— Oliver E. Williamson
The number one problem in today's generation and economy is the lack of financial literacy.
— Alan Greenspan
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 was fading.
— Alan Greenspan
The arts develop skills and habits of mind that are important for workers in the new economy of ideas.
— Alan Greenspan
Since 1948 I have spent every single day thinking how the economic and political worlds have changed.
— Alan Greenspan
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[Republicans] swapped principle for power. They ended up with neither. They deserved to lose.
— Alan Greenspan
The person I liked the best was Gerald R. Ford. He was the most decent man in politics I ever had any relationships with.
— Alan Greenspan
Anything that we can do to raise personal savings is very much in the interest of this country.
— Alan Greenspan
Revolutions are something you see only in retrospect.
— Alan Greenspan
One of the major problems with China is that its innovation is largely borrowed technology.
— Alan Greenspan
We can guarantee cash benefits as far out and at whatever size you like, but we cannot guarantee their purchasing power.
— Alan Greenspan
Regulation of derivatives transactions that are privately negotiated by professionals is unnecessary.
— Alan Greenspan
By far the most significant event in finance during the past decade has been the extraordinary development and expansion of financial derivatives.
— Alan Greenspan
The need for values is inbred. Their content is not.
— Alan Greenspan