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Corruption, embezzlement, fraud, these are all characteristics which exist everywhere. It is regrettably the way human nature functions, whether we like it or not. What successful economies do is keep it to a minimum. No one has ever eliminated any of that stuff.

~Alan Greenspan

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You have to really stretch your imagination to infer what the intrinsic value of Bitcoin is. I haven't been able to do it. Maybe somebody else can.

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

~Alan Greenspan

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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.

~Alan Greenspan

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If I turn out to be particularly clear, you've probably misunderstood what I've said.

~Alan Greenspan

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We really can't forecast all that well, and yet we pretend that we can, but we really can't.

~Alan Greenspan

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Fear and euphoria are dominant forces, and fear is many multiples the size of euphoria. Bubbles go up very slowly as euphoria builds. Then fear hits, and it comes down very sharply. When I started to look at that, I was sort of intellectually shocked. Contagion is the critical phenomenon which causes the thing to fall apart.

~Alan Greenspan

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Economist

Born: March 6th, 1926

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