All Ron Chernow Quotes
- 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. Angry
- The founding fathers were not only brilliant, they were system builders and systematic thinkers. They came up with comprehensive plans and visions. Brilliant
- 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… Almost Anything
- Mutual funds have historically offered safety and diversification. And they spare you the responsibility of picking individual stocks. Diversification
- 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. Big
- By the late 1980s people realized that houses did not always appreciate and that they could fluctuate like any other market commodity. Always Appreciate
- 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… Dubious
- A lot of the money in the stock market is really our national retirement plan, for better or worse. Better
- 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… Every Scenario
- 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… Approaching
- 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… Adopted
- 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… Aerial
- 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… Alexander
- A crash really occurs when you suddenly have a violent downturn in the market that then heralds a long bull market. Bull
- After 1929, so many people had been traumatized by the stock market crash that there was a lost generation. Been
- 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… Aide
- 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… All
- 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… Affair
- Early on, New York already had a national and even international identity. Early
- Hamilton had one of those extraordinary 18th-century minds that touched on virtually every major topic of the day. Century
- I don't think that a mutual fund that invests exclusively in biotech start-ups or invests exclusively in companies in Thailand offers any great safety or… Any
- If you go back to the time of J.P. Morgan, the world of high finance was completely wholesale. The prestigious investment banks on Wall Street… Appealed
- In the 1970s we saw a massive shift of household savings from the banks to the brokerage firms. Banks
- One of the very nice things about investing in the stock market is that you learn about all different aspects of the economy. It's your… All
- You don't want too much fear in a market, because people will be blinded to some very good buying opportunities. You don't want too much… Blinded