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Alan Greenspan Quotes

American - Economist | March 6, 1926 -

The United States can pay any debt it has because we can always print money to do that. So there is zero probability of default.

Money Debt Always Pay Probability

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.

Good Business Music New York Rise

Whatever you tax, you get less of.

You Tax Whatever Get Less

History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.

History Risk Dealt Low Aftermath

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.

Government Society Wall Street Never

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.

Good Business Professional Band Big

Revolutions are something you see only in retrospect.

You See Something Only Retrospect

Before I met Ayn Rand, I was a logical positivist, and accordingly, I didn't believe in absolutes, moral or otherwise. If I couldn't prove a proposition with facts and figures, it was without merit.

Believe Facts Moral Prove Without

I'm not denying that monopolies are terrible things, but I am denying that it is readily easy to resolve them through legislation of that nature.

Nature I Am Easy Resolve Legislation

I get so engaged when I have a problem you cannot solve that I just cannot break away from what I am doing - I keep thinking and thinking and cannot stop.

I Am Thinking Problem Doing You Get

The only way you get economic progress, real standards of living moving higher, is to have the savings of the society continuously invested in the cutting-edge technologies. And those technologies which are obsolescent get dropped out.

Progress Moving Society You Living

The only thing that was economic, I might say, about my music career, aside from the fact that I did everybody's tax returns in the band, was the decision I made to leave the music business on economic grounds.

Business Music Decision Career Tax

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