After 1929, so many people had been traumatized by the stock market crash that there was a lost generation. — Ron Chernow Crash Copy Share Image
The mutual fund industry and small investors are very relentless and very unforgiving if people don't perform. — Ron Chernow Customer Copy Share Image
When you're a biographer, you want to explore the very things that your subject didn't care to talk about. — Ron Chernow Care Copy Share Image
“When avarice takes the lead in a state, it is commonly the forerunner of its fall.” — Ron Chernow Avarice Copy Share Image
“Perseverance in almost any plan is better than fickleness and fluctuation. (Alexander Hamilton, July 1792)” — Ron Chernow Fickleness Copy Share Image
Unless you devote an enormous amount of time to anticipating the future, you won't have any future. — Ron Chernow Amount Copy Share Image
“Give all power to the many, they will oppress the few. Give all power to the few, they will oppress the many.” — Ron Chernow Oppress Copy Share Image
I felt blessed by the existence of Horace Porter's 'Campaigning With Grant.' — Ron Chernow Blessed Copy Share Image
I'm dubious about having Social Security put into the stock market. I think that we have gotten very far away from the… — Ron Chernow Dubious Copy Share Image
“Julia’s brother Lewis, who remained in California, allowed them to use his house “Wish-ton-wish”—an Indian term meaning whip-poor-will—” — Ron Chernow House Wish Copy Share Image
“In the end, nobody would do more than Alexander Hamilton to infuse life into this parchment and make it the working mandate… — Ron Chernow American government Copy Share Image
The thing with all the Founding Fathers, one of the most common words they used was 'posterity.' They were constantly referring to… — Ron Chernow Founding fathers Copy Share Image
“For some, the credo sounded blandly vacuous and Henry Adams wisecracked that “Let Us Have Peace” meant only “Leave Me Alone.” — Ron Chernow Peace Copy Share Image
One of the special characteristics of New York is that it is different from a London or a Paris because it's the… — Ron Chernow Characteristics Copy Share Image
There is a kind of fear, approaching a panic, that's spreading through the Baby Boom Generation, which has suddenly discovered that it… — Ron Chernow Baby Copy Share Image
“Simon Wolf wrote during Woodrow Wilson’s tenure, “President Grant did more on behalf of American citizens of Jewish faith at home and… — Ron Chernow Woodrow wilson Copy Share Image
“The suspect nature of these stories can be seen in the anecdote Jefferson told of Hamilton visiting his lodging in 1792 and… — Ron Chernow Greatest man Copy Share Image
“Conforming to tradition, the convention sent a delegation to Grant with official notice of his nomination. In return, he scratched out a… — Ron Chernow Nomination Copy Share Image
“Thomas Nast published an election cartoon entitled “Victory!” that showed Grant mounted on a white horse, waving a flag bedecked with the… — Ron Chernow Equal rights Copy Share Image
“Actually, Hamilton's exploding cannon may have killed as many as six of his men and wounded four or five others. Some critics… — Ron Chernow Fitness Copy Share Image
“A journalist named C. E. Meade, a nephew of George Gordon Meade, claimed Grant puffed on his last cigar while visiting a… — Ron Chernow Meade Nephew Copy Share Image
“The outside world may have wondered about Grant’s sympathies, but his private statements leave no room for conjecture about his inexorable drift… — Ron Chernow Outside world Copy Share Image
“Julia would gladly have stayed for one more term and had no qualms about scrapping George Washington’s precedent. “Oh, Ulys! was that… — Ron Chernow George w Copy Share Image
“(regarding Charles Lee) This eccentric and notably slovenly man was always trailed by his beloved dogs. "When I can be convinced that… — Ron Chernow Animal Copy Share Image
“Hamilton drew freely on statements he had made at the Constitutional Convention to distinguish his “elective monarch” from a king. The British… — Ron Chernow American president Copy Share Image
“Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar, a bespectacled Republican with a grizzled beard, who was born in Concord, Massachusetts, and attended Harvard College and Law… — Ron Chernow Law school Copy Share Image
“Consequential to the election outcome were the many private contacts in the capital between southern Democrats and Hayes’s northern Republican supporters. At… — Ron Chernow Black community Copy Share Image
“In his final months, Grant showed exceptional kindness to Terrell, furnishing him with a glowing recommendation letter for use after his death… — Ron Chernow Kindness Copy Share Image
“A system which looks to the extinction of a race is too abhorrent for a Nation to indulge in,” Grant told Congress… — Ron Chernow George w Copy Share Image
“Returning to his Manhattan town house on Christmas Eve, Grant, sixty-one, pivoted to hand the driver a holiday tip when he slipped… — Ron Chernow Christmas eve Copy Share Image
“The American Revolution and its aftermath coincided with two great transformations in the late eighteenth century. In the political sphere, there had… — Ron Chernow American revolution Copy Share Image
“eight thousand Republicans crammed into Crosby’s Opera House for a veritable coronation of Ulysses S. Grant. To play on wartime memories, General… — Ron Chernow Opera house Copy Share Image
In the 1970s we saw a massive shift of household savings from the banks to the brokerage firms. — Ron Chernow 1970s Copy Share Image
Writing about dead white males seems to be out of favor among academics. — Ron Chernow Males Copy Share Image
“The prolific Hamilton was now writing pseudonymous commentaries on his own pseudonymous essays.” — Ron Chernow Writing Copy Share Image
The American public historically was really not part of the stock market. — Ron Chernow American public Copy Share Image
I'm disturbed by the words missing from the Trump campaign: Liberty, justice, freedom, and tolerance. — Ron Chernow Freedom Copy Share Image
“It turned out that before he had stalked Garfield, Charles Guiteau had stalked Grant.” — Ron Chernow Charles Guiteau Copy Share Image
A crash really occurs when you suddenly have a violent downturn in the market that then heralds a long bull market. — Ron Chernow Bull market Copy Share Image
I was quite bowled over by Isabel Wilkerson's masterly saga, 'The Warmth of Other Suns.' — Ron Chernow Masterly Copy Share Image
