Alan Greenspan Quotes

History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.

Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse.

I guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you`ve probably misunderstood what I`ve said.

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.

I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I could rise in the music business, so I left the band and enrolled at New York University.

Whatever you tax, you get less of.

Protectionism will do little to create jobs and if foreigners retaliate, we will surely lose jobs.

Anything that we can do to raise personal savings is very much in the interest of this country.

An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions. They seem to sense... that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.

I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well.

We need, in effect, to make the phantom `lock-boxes` around the trust fund real.

To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education - literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills.

The true measure of a career is to be able to be content, even proud, that you succeeded through your own endeavors without leaving a trail of casualties in your wake.

I must say, I never expected to see the day where I would be talking about anything other than reducing the debt, I`m running into the tyranny of zero, which is where you can`t reduce (the debt) any more