Alan Greenspan

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

— Alan Greenspan

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

— Alan Greenspan

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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. ↗

— Alan Greenspan

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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. ↗

— Alan Greenspan

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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. ↗

— Alan Greenspan

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

— Alan Greenspan

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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. ↗

— Alan Greenspan

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Whatever you tax, you get less of. ↗

— Alan Greenspan

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

— Alan Greenspan

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