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I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon real

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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Ive been in and out of Wall Street since 1949, and Ive never seen the type of animosity between government and Wall Street. And Im not sure where it comes from, but I suspect its got to do with a general schism in this society which is really becoming ever more destructive. – 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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We need, in effect, to make the phantom lock-boxes around the trust fund real. – Alan Greenspan

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A man of business may talk of philosophy; a man who has none may practise it. – Alexander Pope, Thoughts on Various Subjects, 1727

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What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield. – Warren Buffett

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