A lot of the money in the stock market is really our national retirement plan, for better or worse. — Ron Chernow Investing Copy Share Image
Unless we know where we've been as a country, we don't know where we are or where we are going. — Ron Chernow Country Copy Share Image
Politics boils down to the stories we tell ourselves. And unfortunately, we tell ourselves different stories. — Ron Chernow Ourselves Copy Share Image
“Even as a raw country boy, he allowed himself no oath stronger than “Thunder and Lightning” — Ron Chernow Country boy Copy Share Image
I think there's a tide that tends to carry historians back to the past. — Ron Chernow Historians Copy Share Image
With any piece of writing, you're hoping that it will change something, and it seldom does. — Ron Chernow Change Copy Share Image
“Grant was peppered with conflicting reports from white Democrats and black Republicans in Mississippi, who seemed to reside on different planets. One… — Ron Chernow Grant Ignorant Copy Share Image
The securities laws of the 1930s were so important because it forced companies to file registration statements and issue prospectuses, and it… — Ron Chernow 1930s Copy Share Image
The best argument for mutual funds is that they offer safety and diversification. But they don't necessarily offer safety and diversification. — Ron Chernow Argument Copy Share Image
The story of Alexander Hamilton lends itself to hip-hop treatment. Hamilton's personality is driven and unrelenting, and the music has that same… — Ron Chernow Hamilton Copy Share Image
One of the very nice things about investing in the stock market is that you learn about all different aspects of the… — Ron Chernow Aspect Copy Share Image
“Hamilton’s relatively short life robbed him not only of any chance for further accomplishment but of the opportunity to mold his historical… — Ron Chernow Life Copy Share Image
“As his life steadily unraveled, he pawned his gold watch and chain for $20 on December 23, 1857, to purchase Christmas presents… — Ron Chernow Christmas Copy Share Image
The Great Inflation of the 1970s destroyed faith in paper assets, because if you held a bond, suddenly the bond was worth… — Ron Chernow Assets Copy Share Image
“Washington dwelt upon the transcendent importance of education underscores the stigma that he felt about having missed college. As president, he lectured… — Ron Chernow Education Copy Share Image
“When Grant made Edward S. Salomon governor of the Washington Territory, it was the first time an American Jew had occupied a… — Ron Chernow First time Copy Share Image
“When Franklin suggested on June 28th that each session start with a prayer for heavenly help, Hamilton countered that this might foster… — Ron Chernow Foreign aid Copy Share Image
If you go back to the time of J.P. Morgan, the world of high finance was completely wholesale. The prestigious investment banks… — Ron Chernow Corporations Copy Share Image
“The Republican marching club was known as the Galena Wide Awakes—Orvil Grant was a member—and as they tramped along, clad in dark… — Ron Chernow Marching Copy Share Image
“He became known for breaking in wild horses for local farmers, a sight that drew admiring spectators to the village square. He… — Ron Chernow Wild horses Copy Share Image
“In Venice, Grant let slip a remark that would provide fodder for many satirists: he told a young woman what a fine… — Ron Chernow Venice Copy Share Image
“At the time, Charles Sumner still chaired the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and made preposterous demands upon the English. Not only did… — Ron Chernow Time Copy Share Image
“The funeral was a vast, elaborate affair, befitting a monarch or head of state, in marked contrast to the essential simplicity of… — Ron Chernow American spirit Copy Share Image
“At forty-six, Grant was still trim and fit, the youngest man elected president until then. Having weathered the crucible of war, he… — Ron Chernow Grant Copy Share Image
“the immorality of slavery became patently clear that spring. He had acquired from Colonel Dent the mulatto slave named William Jones who… — Ron Chernow Five years Copy Share Image
“He cleverly assumed that he was addressing loyal people and made common cause with them: I have come among you, not as… — Ron Chernow Friendship Copy Share Image
“On February 7, President Johnson met at the White House with five black leaders, including Frederick Douglass, who came to lobby for… — Ron Chernow Civil rights Copy Share Image
“Nothing in all history,” William Lloyd Garrison wrote, equaled “this wonderful, quiet, sudden transformation of four millions of human beings from . . . the… — Ron Chernow Amendment Copy Share Image
“the Ku Klux Klan Act. He had planned a California trip that spring, but canceled it in the belief that he couldn’t… — Ron Chernow Federal government Copy Share Image
“As in past years, the self-absorbed Jesse Root Grant and equally self-absorbed Colonel Dent continued to find each other insufferable and Grant… — Ron Chernow Old man Copy Share Image
“At the Constitutional Convention, Elbridge Gerry had bawdily likened standing armies to a tumescent penis: “An excellent assurance of domestic tranquillity, but… — Ron Chernow Adventure Copy Share Image
Strange as it may seem, George Washington's life has now been so minutely documented that we know far more about him than… — Ron Chernow Family Copy Share Image
“Whatever Hoar’s injury, he departed in gentlemanly fashion, sending Grant a gracious farewell note. In private, however, he broadcast his anger and… — Ron Chernow Farewell Copy Share Image
As the bull market goes on, people who take great risks achieve great rewards, seemingly without punishment. It's like crime without punishment… — Ron Chernow Achieve Copy Share Image
Partly because his life ended before the age of 50, Hamilton was defined by the other founding fathers, and he managed, with… — Ron Chernow Age Copy Share Image
I think one of the important things that's happened in the course of the century is that life expectancy has doubled. — Ron Chernow Century Copy Share Image
“In another message he wrote, “I am a verb instead of a personal pronoun. A verb is anything that signifies to be;… — Ron Chernow Verb Copy Share Image
There were two qualities about the mutual funds of the 1920s that made them extremely speculative. One was that they were heavily… — Ron Chernow About Copy Share Image
Mutual funds have historically offered safety and diversification. And they spare you the responsibility of picking individual stocks. — Ron Chernow Customer Copy Share Image
Hamilton had a certain social versatility, and in a way, that is understandable because he's someone who rises up from the lowest… — Ron Chernow Hamilton Copy Share Image
