Alan Greenspan
United States
Born on 6 Mar 1926
Economist
Born on 6 Mar 1926
Economist
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Forecasting our futures is built into our psyches because we will soon have to manage that future. We have no choice. No matter how often we fail, we can never stop trying.
One less welcome byproduct of rapid economic and technological change...is the evident insecurity felt by many workers despite the tightest labor markets in decades. This anxiety stems, I suspect, from a fear of job skill obsolescence, and one very tangible measure of it is the pressure on our education and training systems to prepare and adapt workers to effectively run the new technologies.
Speech, State College, Pennsylvania. 'Structural Change in the New Economy' (2000)
There's a certain really quite unimaginable intellectual interest that one gets from working in the context where you have to put broad theoretical and fairly complex conceptual issues to a test in the marketplace.
Speech, Washington, D.C. (2000)
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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Essays
On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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Essays