The Man Who Knew Quotes

“nihilism,”
― Sebastian Mallaby, The Man Who Knew: The Life & Times of Alan Greenspan

“success had bred confidence; confidence had blurred into complacency; complacency had caused human beings to behave awfully.”
― Sebastian Mallaby, The Man Who Knew: The Life and Times of Alan Greenspan

“Do not suffer your good nature . . . to say yes when you ought to say no,”
― Sebastian Mallaby, The Man Who Knew: The Life and Times of Alan Greenspan

“Mankiw compared the state of economics in the late 1980s to the astronomy of an earlier era, when the old Ptolemaic system had been discarded, but the new Copernican ideas were not yet much use to navigators. During that confusing interregnum, there had been no dependable rule book; ships had been steered by improvising pragmatists.”
― Sebastian Mallaby, The Man Who Knew: The Life & Times of Alan Greenspan