Alan Greenspan

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

"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."