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
We increase our suffering through our attempts to avoid it
— Miriam Greenspan
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
When I'm developing a recipe with brown butter - I know how much butter I want in the end and I so I start with more butter than I'll need.
— Dorie Greenspan
The food world is more crowded these days, but I think that there are more opportunities.
— Dorie Greenspan
No man bears more responsibility for the present worldwide financial crisis and coming depression than Alan Greenspan.
— Bill Bonner
This shit is for amateurs. The whole world's a fucking drag show. Look at them, they are all in costume.
— David Greenspan
Chairman Greenspan is, of course, a master. — Ben Bernanke
Real French people don't bake! At least they don't bake anything complicated, finicky, tricky or unreliable. — Dorie Greenspan
All taxes are a drag on economic growth. It's only a question of degree. — Alan Greenspan
You can't have the capitalist system if an increasing number of people think it is unjust. — Alan Greenspan
History cannot be reduced to a set of statistics and probabilities. — Alan Greenspan
Do the work you are most proud of — Dorie Greenspan
Self-esteem is an inner feeling: Sometimes it corresponds with outer reality, and sometimes it doesn't. — Stanley 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
Markets do very weird things because it reacts to how people behave, and sometimes people are a little screwy. — 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
I'm a free-market economist from years and years back, and I've never veered from that. — Alan Greenspan
The free lunch has still to be invented. — Alan Greenspan
We really can't forecast all that well, and yet we pretend that we can, but we really can't. — 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
Anything you make in a 'normal' sized loaf pan can be made in the longer pan - you just have to increase the recipe proportionately. — Dorie Greenspan
Diplomacy is really far less important than the stock movements within Russia. — Alan Greenspan
If you think you understand what I am saying you do not understand what I am saying. — Alan Greenspan
Indeed, better risk management may be the only truly necessary element of success in banking. — 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
When trust is lost, a nation's ability to transact business is palpably undermined. — Alan Greenspan
Whatever you tax, you get less of. — 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
In general, corruption tends to exist whenever governments have favors to extend, or something to sell. — Alan Greenspan
There's no other job in public life that is like chairman of the Fed. — Alan Greenspan
The Iraq War is largely about oil. — Alan Greenspan
I think the move by Mr. Greenspan was welcomed by everyone here. — Jack Welch
The need for values is inbred. Their content is not. — Alan Greenspan
I often say that eggs and sugar should be beaten until they thicken and pale and sometimes, when there are lots of yolks, that's lemon colored. — Dorie 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
Regulation of derivatives transactions that are privately negotiated by professionals is unnecessary. — 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
One of the major problems with China is that its innovation is largely borrowed technology. — Alan Greenspan
Revolutions are something you see only in retrospect. — Alan Greenspan
Credit-default swaps, I think, have serious problems associated with them. — Alan Greenspan
Anything that we can do to raise personal savings is very much in the interest of this country. — 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
Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse. — Alan Greenspan
Greenspan tells us what to do. Someone should take him out and hang him. — Hutton Gibson
You can use melted butter instead of oil, but your cake may be a little denser. — Dorie Greenspan
Since 1948 I have spent every single day thinking how the economic and political worlds have changed. — Alan Greenspan
The arts develop skills and habits of mind that are important for workers in the new economy of ideas. — 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 number one problem in today's generation and economy is the lack of financial literacy. — Alan Greenspan
If you believe that markets operate in Alan Greenspan fashion, then you don't inquire into the details. — Oliver E. Williamson
Damn inflation, full speed ahead,' Greenspan has said in both action and word. I think an investor should believe him and invest accordingly. — Bill Gross
Greenspan's policies have created huge amounts of wealth for Arizona. — Ernst Happel
The purpose of a politician is to be a leader. A politician has to lead. Otherwise he's just a follower. — Alan Greenspan
Cooking and baking are pleasures and I want everyone to be able to experience and share them. — Dorie Greenspan
There is a limit to how much the United States Treasury can borrow. — Alan Greenspan
Protectionism will do little to create jobs and if foreigners retaliate, we will surely lose jobs. — 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
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[Republicans] swapped principle for power. They ended up with neither. They deserved to lose. — Alan Greenspan
Greenspan, who knew so much more than most, knew far less than most supposed ... — Alan Greenspan
If I say something which you understand fully in this regard, I probably made a mistake. — Alan Greenspan
The cookie-verse is infinite — Dorie 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
No matter how skillful the trading scheme, over the long haul, abnormal returns are sustained only through abnormal exposure to risk. — Alan Greenspan
You wouldn't want Alan Greenspan to write the instructions for assembling a beach chair. — Robert Orben
I guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you've probably misunderstood what I've said. — Alan Greenspan
Without the triggers, that tax cut is irreponsible fiscal policy. Eventually, I think that will be the consensus view. — Alan Greenspan
She pokes at a very wrinkled baked potato that somehow reminds me of Alan Greenspan. — Nic Tatano
Excessive optimism sows the seeds of its own reversal. — Alan Greenspan
The issue of economics is not something I've understood as well as I should. I've got Greenspan's book. — John McCain
Amateurs want to be right. Professionals want to make money. — Alan Greenspan
If I've made myself clear, I've misspoken. — Alan Greenspan
Unless you are willing to compromise, society cannot live together. — Alan Greenspan
Empathy comes from being empathized with. — Stanley Greenspan
Fear invariably and universally induces disengagement, and disengagement is negative division of labor. — 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
It is very difficult to predict when a bond crisis could happen. — Alan Greenspan
We need, in effect, to make the phantom 'lock-boxes' around the trust fund real. — Alan Greenspan
I don't know if there's a method that I'd like to see younger people bring back, I just want to see everyone of every age in the kitchen. — Dorie Greenspan
There is no evidence that the business cycle has been repealed. — 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
Finance is wholly different from the rest the economy. — Alan Greenspan
The problem is you cannot have free global trade with highly restrictive, regulated domestic markets. — Alan Greenspan
But rules cannot substitute for character. — Alan Greenspan
History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums. — Alan Greenspan
American consumers might benefit if lenders provided greater mortgage product alternatives to the traditional fixed-rate mortgage. — 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
The process of innovation is, of course, never ending. — Alan Greenspan
