Achieve Quote by Ron Chernow

“As the bull market goes on, people who take great risks achieve great rewards, seemingly without punishment. It's like crime without punishment or sex without sin.” quote by Ron Chernow — Download Open image

“As the bull market goes on, people who take great risks achieve great rewards, seemingly without punishment. It's like crime without punishment or sex without sin.”

Ron Chernow

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (5 ratings)

Achieve Bull market Bulls Crime Goes on Investing People Punishment Rewards Risk Sex Sin

More by Ron Chernow

“In other words, Julia still believed in the beneficial effects of tobacco long after her husband had likely died from it. Even grimacing with…

Ron Chernow

Image

“Right before his inauguration, he received a Quaker delegation and asked them to nominate Indian agents from their members. “If you can make Quakers out of the Indians, it will take the fight out of them,” Grant told them. “Let us have peace.”15 Aside from his respect for Quaker pacifism and integrity, Grant knew the society had coexisted peacefully with…

Ron Chernow

“Grant roomed with Fred Dent, who also singled out Grant as “the clearest headed young man I ever saw . . . He always wanted to do…

Ron Chernow

Image

The richly cadenced prose is hypnotic, the research prodigious, the analysis acute, the mood spellbinding, and the cast of characters mythic in scale. I…

Ron Chernow

Image

“Hamilton has often been extolled as the exponent of a rational foreign policy based on cool calculations of national self-interest. But his April 14…

Ron Chernow

Image

“While the folks at home embraced him as an improbable hero, Washington was denigrated in England as a reckless young warrior and in France…

Ron Chernow

Image

“the immorality of slavery became patently clear that spring. He had acquired from Colonel Dent the mulatto slave named William Jones who had worked…

Ron Chernow

Image

“As his life steadily unraveled, he pawned his gold watch and chain for $20 on December 23, 1857, to purchase Christmas presents for his…

Ron Chernow

Image

“Grant had overwhelmingly won the electoral vote, and had garnered the largest popular majority of the century, nearly 56 percent of the vote, the…

Ron Chernow

Image

“The chief quartermaster on the West Coast, Robert Allen, an old friend of Grant’s, learned he was holed up in a cheap miner’s hotel…

Ron Chernow

Image

“Returning to his Manhattan town house on Christmas Eve, Grant, sixty-one, pivoted to hand the driver a holiday tip when he slipped on the…

Ron Chernow

Image

“When he bet Julia that she wouldn’t dare to descend into the mine, located seventeen hundred feet below, it roused her fighting spirit and she proved him wrong. Grant surfaced from the deep mine, red-faced and perspiring, and joked that it was a good place “to leave the newspapermen.” “Would you not leave the politicians, too?” asked John H. Kinkead,…

Ron Chernow

Explore all 276 Ron Chernow quotes

More Achieve quotes

I always say there are two things to be successful. The first is decide exactly what you want - set your goals - and…

Brian Tracy

Image

I understand that it's the music that keeps me alive... That's my lifeblood. And to give that up for, like, the TV, the cars, the houses - that's not the American dream. That's the booby prize, in the end. Those are the booby prizes. And if you fall for them - if, when you achieve them, you believe that this…

Bruce Springsteen

I love playing for my country, getting the support. Especially for the kids and everybody, showing my example of what I can achieve so…

Maria Sharapova

Image

Human beings have an innate inner drive to be autonomous, self-determined, and connected to one another. And when that drive is liberated, people achieve…

Daniel H. Pink

Image

Focus on becoming more to achieve more while doing less

Hal Elrod

Image

I hope that the Palestinians don't make the mistake of unleashing a new intifada. They've tried it twice before, and the consequences were bad for both sides. But I don't think the forces are there (that could carry out) an uprising against the leadership. The people that could initiate it are in Israeli prisons. And what could they hope to…

Tom Segev

I'm a film guy. I love it. When I read the screenplay, I knew that there would be no HD camera that could achieve the look that I wanted for this film. I wanted it to be dirty, and 16mm provides all of that with the look and the grain. That's what I worked for, and that's what I wanted,…

Deon Taylor