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Alan Greenspan
“If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said. -- Speaking to a Senate Committee in 1987, as quoted in the Guardian Weekly, November 4, 2005.
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“Train people well enough so they can leave, treat them well enough so they don't want to.”
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“Luck enters into every contingency. You are a fool if you forget it -- and a greater fool if you count upon it.”
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“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
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