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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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Government
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History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums. – Alan Greenspan

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History
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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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If you deprive yourself of outsourcing and your competitors do not, youre putting yourself out of business. – Lee Kuan Yew

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You have got to have discipline and focus – on the customer and how you run the business. – Jim Cantalupo

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I mean, Im in the business of storytelling, not message making. – John le Carre

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