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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

The history of Wall Street is inseparable from New York.

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

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

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

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

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

Hamilton, the human word machine,

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

The law is whatever is successfully argued and plausibly maintained,

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

polite with dignity, affable without formality, distant without haughtiness, grave without austerity,

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

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

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

explaining that he did so "from a desire of testifying

Many mickles make a muckle.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1755, Knox decided to propagate the gospel and was sent

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

A romantic striving for an impossible ideal.

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.