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I think one of the important things that's happened in the course of the century is that life expectancy has doubled. — Ron Chernow

After 1929, so many people had been traumatized by the stock market crash that there was a lost generation. — Ron Chernow

Since critics found it hard to defeat him on intellectual grounds, they stooped to personal attacks. — Ron Chernow

Rockefeller equated silence with strength: Weak men had loose tongues and blabbed to reporters, while prudent businessmen kept their own counsel. — Ron Chernow

A lot of the money in the stock market is really our national retirement plan, for better or worse. — Ron Chernow

By the late 1980s people realized that houses did not always appreciate and that they could fluctuate like any other market commodity. — Ron Chernow

Light reading (by this, I mean books of little importance) may amuse for the moment, but leaves nothing solid behind. — Ron Chernow

Finally, he flung his hat on the ground in disgust and fumed, "Are these the men with whom I am to defend America? — Ron Chernow

Mutual funds give people the sense that they're investing with the big boys and that they're really not at a disadvantage entering the stock market. — Ron Chernow

As a team, they were unbeatable and far more than the sum of their parts. — Ron Chernow

In the 1970s we saw a massive shift of household savings from the banks to the brokerage firms. — Ron Chernow

Hamilton's besetting fear was that American democracy would be spoiled by demagogues who would mouth populist shibboleths to conceal their despotism. — Ron Chernow

Success comes from keeping the ears open and the mouth closed" and "A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds. — Ron Chernow

The task of government was not to stop selfish striving - a hopeless task - but to harness it for the public good. — Ron Chernow

The American public historically was really not part of the stock market. — Ron Chernow

I have developed a very strong partiality for the dead: they don't talk back, they don't sue, and they don't have angry relatives. — Ron Chernow

There is no country in the world where it's as easy to find venture capital in the stock market as the United States. — Ron Chernow

The founding fathers were not only brilliant, they were system builders and systematic thinkers. They came up with comprehensive plans and visions. — Ron Chernow

I'm a biographer; I can live with a little hyperbole. — Ron Chernow

The history of Wall Street is inseparable from New York. — Ron Chernow

This, I confess, hurts my feelings, and if it obtains credit will require a contradiction, — Ron Chernow

Rather than make peace with John Adams, he was ready, if necessary, to blow up the Federalist party and let Jefferson become president. The — Ron Chernow

Mutual funds have historically offered safety and diversification. And they spare you the responsibility of picking individual stocks. — Ron Chernow

I think there's a tide that tends to carry historians back to the past. — Ron Chernow

Another female observer found Madison entertaining in private but "mute, cold, and repulsive" in company. — Ron Chernow

Hamilton, the human word machine, — Ron Chernow

In the 1920s you could buy stocks on margin. You could put 10 percent down and borrow the rest against your stocks. — Ron Chernow

The law is whatever is successfully argued and plausibly maintained, — Ron Chernow

A crash really occurs when you suddenly have a violent downturn in the market that then heralds a long bull market. — Ron Chernow

polite with dignity, affable without formality, distant without haughtiness, grave without austerity, — Ron Chernow

Daring in design, cautious in execution - it was a formula he made his own throughout his career. — Ron Chernow

After the death of John Laurens, Hamilton shut off some compartment of his emotions and never reopened it. — Ron Chernow

Early on, New York already had a national and even international identity. — Ron Chernow

explaining that he did so "from a desire of testifying — Ron Chernow

Many mickles make a muckle. — Ron Chernow

Hamilton saw America's essential nature being forged in the throes of battle, and that made honest action imperative. — Ron Chernow

The first great skeptic of American exceptionalism, he refused to believe that the country was exempt from the sober lessons of history. — Ron Chernow

The best argument for mutual funds is that they offer safety and diversification. But they don't necessarily offer safety and diversification. — Ron Chernow

If Washington expected relief from Hamilton badgering him for an appointment, he soon learned otherwise. Hamilton was fully prepared to become a pest. — Ron Chernow

Unless you devote an enormous amount of time to anticipating the future, you won't have any future. — Ron Chernow

Washington must have seen that Hamilton, for all his brains and daring, sometimes lacked judgment and had to be supervised carefully. — Ron Chernow

Washington had several surrogate sons during the Revolution, most notably the marquis de Lafayette, and he often referred to Hamilton as my boy. — Ron Chernow

In fact, no immigrant in American history has ever made a larger contribution than Alexander Hamilton — Ron Chernow

Writing about dead white males seems to be out of favor among academics. — Ron Chernow

Perseverance in almost any plan is better than fickleness and fluctuation. (Alexander Hamilton, July 1792) — Ron Chernow

Hamilton had one of those extraordinary 18th-century minds that touched on virtually every major topic of the day. — Ron Chernow

Once Hamilton was initiated into the cause of American liberty, his life acquired an even more headlong pace that never slackened. — Ron Chernow

1755, Knox decided to propagate the gospel and was sent — Ron Chernow

The mutual fund industry and small investors are very relentless and very unforgiving if people don't perform. — Ron Chernow

A romantic striving for an impossible ideal. — Ron Chernow

When the market is just going up, up, and up, we all tend to be blind to the holes in the market. They're all papered over by the rise. — Ron Chernow