Alan Greenspan Quotes & Sayings (Page 6)

“Whatever you tax, you get less of.”

“I've always considered myself more of a mathematician than a psychologist.”

“It is very difficult to predict when a bond crisis could happen.”

“The purpose of a politician is to be a leader. A politician has to lead. Otherwise he's just a follower.”

“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.”

“The central focus of what we are doing at the Fed is to keep inflation from accelerating - and preferably decelerating.”

“The culture of Greece is not the same as the culture of Germany, and to fuse them into a single unit is extremely difficult.”

“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.”

“One of the major problems with China is that its innovation is largely borrowed technology.”

“The problem is you cannot have free global trade with highly restrictive, regulated domestic markets.”