"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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"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."
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"Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse."
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"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."
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"We need, in effect, to make the phantom 'lock-boxes' around the trust fund real."
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"I've been in and out of Wall Street since 1949, and I've never seen the type of animosity between government and Wall Street. And I'm not sure where it comes from, but I suspect it's got to do with a general schism in this society which is really becoming ever more destructive."
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