Ron Chernow Quotes

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• 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.
• The founding fathers were not only brilliant, they were system builders and systematic thinkers. They came up with comprehensive plans and visions.
• As a bull market continues, almost anything you buy goes up. It makes you feel that investing in stocks is a very easy and safe…
• Mutual funds have historically offered safety and diversification. And they spare you the responsibility of picking individual stocks.
• 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.
• By the late 1980s people realized that houses did not always appreciate and that they could fluctuate like any other market commodity.
• I'm dubious about having Social Security put into the stock market. I think that we have gotten very far away from the idea that there's…
• A lot of the money in the stock market is really our national retirement plan, for better or worse.
• We really haven't had very much experience with people funding their retirement out of the stock market, and we don't know, frankly, how it would…
• There is a kind of fear, approaching a panic, that's spreading through the Baby Boom Generation, which has suddenly discovered that it will have to…
• Washington once advised his adopted grandson that where there is no occasion for expressing an opinion, it is best to be silent. For there is…
• In waiting for the glorious moment of that first book contract, writers must have giant reservoirs of patience. Yet they must persevere because they don't…
• A prudent silence will frequently be taken for wisdom and a sentence or two cautiously thrown in will sometimes gain the palm of knowledge, while…
• A crash really occurs when you suddenly have a violent downturn in the market that then heralds a long bull market.
• After 1929, so many people had been traumatized by the stock market crash that there was a lost generation.
• After being Washington's aide for four years and becoming the hero of Yorktown, Hamilton was viewed with a great deal of suspicion because of his…
• Any bull market covers a multitude of sins, so there may be all sorts of problems with the current system that we won't see until…
• Because of the love affair between the American public and the stock market, it is possible for entrepreneurs, technological visionaries and inventors of every sort…
• Early on, New York already had a national and even international identity.
• Hamilton had one of those extraordinary 18th-century minds that touched on virtually every major topic of the day.

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