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
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
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. – Alan Greenspan
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