Alan Greenspan Quotes

Success always has a price; success, with integrity, is the real bottom line.

I admire people who are very successful. But if that success has been achieved through too much ruthlessness, then I may admire that person, but I can't respect him.

I am fully aware that everybody has a right to succeed, and success should be with ethics.

I've always been able to keep my private life separate from my business.

Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.

I don't think ethical people deal with intimidation as a method to achieve success. Undermining someone's self-esteem isn't a method to achieve success.

My relationship with Salman Khan is too personal to talk about. I take my work like any other regular job, and what I do in my personal life is no one's business. I'd rather let my work do all the talking.

Realize that the game of life is the game of, to some extent, being taken advantage of by people who make a science of it. Whether they are in government or personal life or in business, they're everywhere.

Most of the people around me have a vested interest in how much money I make. You know, so a celebrity could find themselves in a position where people could have meetings about their life without them involved. And when I say 'their life' I mean not their professional life either. They could talk about their personal life.

I tell students and young professionals all the time to follow their hearts, do what they truly love, and if it's business, run it by being grounded in ethical consciousness.

Corruption never has been compulsory.

The principles we live by, in business and in social life, are the most important part of happiness.

The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.

I have principles in my professional and personal life as to how things are done.

If you had to pick between being moral and successful, obviously I'd choose to be moral. However if you can choose both, will you choose both? I'd say definitely.

There's a difference between fair game and playing games.

Behind every great fortune there is a crime.

If there's one thing that I have in this business, it's respect.

I would never manipulate somebody and put somebody in peril so that I could get rich off of it.

I could never lie to someone to benefit myself, so telemarketing was something I was terrible at!

I am not a politician. I'm an American businessman and entrepreneur that have built two businesses, and I try to play it straight with people.

It's Not sacrifice if it's someone else's life you're giving away, it's just evil.

I scarcely know a professional man I can like, and certainly not one who has been what the world calls successful, that I should the least wish to resemble.

Work with integrity and succeed with integrity

Whether you are running a business, an industry, or a nation - what is needed are insight, integrity, and inspiration.