Top 78 Quotes by Alan Greenspan

About Alan Greenspan

These are some quotes by American author Alan Greenspan Economist, who was born on March 6, 1926.

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.

Alan Greenspan

There is a limit to how much the United States Treasury can borrow.

There is a limit to how much the United States Treasury can borrow.

Alan Greenspan

It's only when the markets are perceived to have exhausted themselves on the downside that they turn. Trying to prevent them from going down just merely prolongs the agony.

It's only when the markets are perceived to have exhausted themselves on the downside that they turn. Trying to prevent them from going down just merely prolongs the agony.

Alan Greenspan

Most high-income people in our country do not realize that their incomes are being subsidized by their protection from competition from highly skilled people who are prevented from immigrating to the United States. But we need such skills in order to staff our productive economy, so that the standard of living for Americans as a whole can grow.

Alan Greenspan

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

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

Alan Greenspan

We really can't forecast all that well, and yet we pretend that we can, but we really can't.

We really can't forecast all that well, and yet we pretend that we can, but we really can't.

Alan Greenspan

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

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

Alan Greenspan

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.

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.

Alan Greenspan

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

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

Alan Greenspan

There are winners and there are losers. And as much as we would like to help the losers, if we do it in the way that directs the limited capital of the society to support the low-productivity parts of the economy, it means that the rest of the economy - our overall standard of living - will not rise as much as it could.

Alan Greenspan

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