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"Don't waste time on employment, discover yourself today."

"You have to take opportunities and make an opportunity fit for you, rather than the other way around."

"I was very lucky. I started my own commercial company."

"There is no perfect fit when you're looking for the next big thing to do. You have to take opportunities and make an opportunity fit for you, rather than the other way around."

"Joblessness gives you liberty."

"Joblessness brings you face to face with destiny."

"The purpose of employment is not to make money."

"Novelist by day, screenwriter by night."
Explore more quotes 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."

"Look, I'm very much in favor of tax cuts, but not with borrowed money. And the problem that we've gotten into in recent years is spending programs with borrowed money, tax cuts with borrowed money, and at the end of the day that proves disastrous. And my view is I don't think we can play subtle policy here."

"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."

"I've been in and out of Wall Street since 1949, and I've never seen the type of animosity between government and Wall Street. And I'm not sure where it comes from, but I suspect it's got to do with a general schism in this society which is really becoming ever more destructive."
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