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“The head monkey at Paris puts on a traveller's cap, and all the monkeys in America do the same.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
"One of the problems with hedge funds is that they are changing so rapidly. If you have the balance sheet that closed business last night, by 11 A.M. this morning, that won't tell you very much about what they're doing."
Quote by -Alan Greenspan
"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."
Quote by -Alan Greenspan
"We really can't forecast all that well, and yet we pretend that we can, but we really can't."
Quote by -Alan Greenspan
"Corruption, embezzlement, fraud, these are all characteristics which exist everywhere. It is regrettably the way human nature functions, whether we like it or not. What successful economies do is keep it to a minimum. No one has ever eliminated any of that stuff."
Quote by -Alan Greenspan
"I do not understand where the backing of Bitcoin is coming from. There is no fundamental issue of capabilities of repaying it in anything which is universally acceptable, which is either intrinsic value of the currency or the credit or trust of the individual who is issuing the money, whether it's a government or an individual."
Quote by -Alan Greenspan
"I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well."
Quote by -Alan Greenspan
"I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well."
Quote by -Alan Greenspan
"I stated that I'm a libertarian Republican, which means I believe in a series of issues, such as smaller government, constraint on budget deficits, free markets, globalization, and a whole series of other things, including welfare reform."
Quote by -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."
Quote by -Alan Greenspan
"Protectionism will do little to create jobs and if foreigners retaliate, we will surely lose jobs."
Quote by -Alan Greenspan
"There is a huge number of people outside our borders who would love to come here. In fact, many of them come here, get well educated, and then are required to leave... This is a factor in income inequality."
Quote by -Alan Greenspan
"Europe is very critical to the United States in the sense not only do we have a fourth of our exports there, but more importantly, a significant proportion of the foreign affiliate profits in fact, half of U.S. corporations, are in Europe."
Quote by -Alan Greenspan
"Before I met Ayn Rand, I was a logical positivist, and accordingly, I didn't believe in absolutes, moral or otherwise. If I couldn't prove a proposition with facts and figures, it was without merit."
Quote by -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."
Quote by -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."
Quote by -Alan Greenspan
"The very nature of finance is that it cannot be profitable unless it is significantly leveraged... and as long as there is debt, there can be failure and contagion."
Quote by -Alan Greenspan
"The true measure of a career is to be able to be content, even proud, that you succeeded through your own endeavors without leaving a trail of casualties in your wake."
Quote by -Alan Greenspan
"When you go back and look at American history, it's not terribly different from Canadian history. If you weren't self-reliant on the prairie, you wouldn't survive."
Quote by -Alan Greenspan
"My brothers and I grew up in a time where talking, storytelling, telling jokes was sometimes all you had. It wasn't like today, with so many options and portability."
Quote by -Alec Baldwin
"You read some columnists in the newspapers; you have to wonder who they are really working for. You can see they have an agenda."
Quote by -Alec Baldwin
"Everybody has their own taste, and I allow for that, but personally, I don't like a striped tie on a striped shirt. I don't like brown shoes with a blue suit. Cordovan maybe, but not brown."
Quote by -Alec Baldwin
"Zegna has the perfect weight fabric. There are a lot of designers who make clothes that are a little too heavy. They feel heavy. They almost feel like a coat."
Quote by -Alec Baldwin
"So Colleen Atwood introduced me to Armani for the fabric and the dyes - what made Armani, Armani, beyond his motion-picture credentials. It was Cerruti after that. And then Zegna."
Quote by -Alec Baldwin
"The way we divorce in this country hurts people on the deepest level. The ripple effect and resonance of it is remarkable, vast - vast - and if I ever went into Parliament, I would become very involved in that."
Quote by -Alec Baldwin
"If you're going to have someone defend you, it doesn't get any better than Kristen Stewart."
Quote by -Alec Baldwin
"We need more participation, so when I see someone like Trump, I go, 'You know something? Good for him'. I may not support him, but let him run."
Quote by -Alec Baldwin
"If MSNBC went off the air tomorrow, what difference would it make? If the 'Huffington Post' went out of business tomorrow, what difference would it make?"
Quote by -Alec Baldwin
"I'm not interested in offending anyone. If homosexuality was an issue for me, I would have moved out of New York years ago. I find that laughable."
Quote by -Alec Baldwin
"I know women that act queeny, I know men that are straight that act queeny, and I know gay men that act queeny... To me, those are people who think the rules don't apply to them."
Quote by -Alec Baldwin
"I have dear friends of mine who represent real Republicans. Goldwater Republicans. Strong on defense. Tough on immigration. Fiscal conservatives."
Quote by -Alec Baldwin
"If Hank Williams Jr. wasn't such a pathetic, wheezing fossil, I'd have a talk with him."
Quote by -Alec Baldwin
"As a lifelong Democrat, I never thought I'd lead an effort to defend the symbol of the Republican Party. But when I saw the cruelty that Ringling inflicts on elephants every day across the country, I had to speak up."
Quote by -Alec Baldwin
"I need to be home more. That's the goal now. I have a steady flow of things people want me to do."
Quote by -Alec Baldwin
"I worked all the time. Every moment I wasn't working, I was home with my family. I got divorced. And now I'm doing it all over again, and I've learned that the key is, I've got to work less."
Quote by -Alec Baldwin
"I want to go make a movie and be very present for that and give it everything I have, and after we're done, then the rest of the time is mine."
Quote by -Alec Baldwin
"I won every award you could win in television. I got paid well. And people loved '30 Rock'. And I loved '30 Rock'. I mean, sometimes you do a show that's a hit show, and you hate it."
Quote by -Alec Baldwin