3 December 2020 Alan Greenspan 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.
3 December 2020 Alan Greenspan 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.
3 December 2020 Alan Greenspan We need, in effect, to make the phantom ‘lock-boxes’ around the trust fund real.
3 December 2020 Alan Greenspan History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.
3 December 2020 Alan Greenspan 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 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.
