Ron Chernow Quotes

• Capitalism requires people to be pious souls in the workplace, wild pagans at the cash register.

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• The history of Wall Street is inseparable from New York.

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• I think those who invest in mutual funds want someone else to do the thinking for them. But the fact that they can move the money around the family of mutual funds just through a phone call lets them feel that they can play tycoons.

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• A lot of the money in the stock market is really our national retirement plan, for better or worse.

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• Once the brokerage house, rather than the bank, became the locus for American savings, that money would find its way into the stock market, because the broker was someone with a much higher tolerance for risk than the banker.

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• The Great Inflation of the 1970s destroyed faith in paper assets, because if you held a bond, suddenly the bond was worth much less money than it was before.

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• Hamilton had one of those extraordinary 18th-century minds that touched on virtually every major topic of the day.

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• A crash really occurs when you suddenly have a violent downturn in the market that then heralds a long bull market.

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• Early on, New York already had a national and even international identity.

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• 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 and that you’re a financial genius.

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• 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 to get financing.

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• As the bull market goes on, people who take great risks achieve great rewards, seemingly without punishment. It’s like crime without punishment or s*x without sin.

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• 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 association with Tories.

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• After 1929, so many people had been traumatized by the stock market crash that there was a lost generation.

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• By the late 1980s people realized that houses did not always appreciate and that they could fluctuate like any other market commodity.

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• 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 the bear market comes.

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• I think one of the important things that’s happened in the course of the century is that life expectancy has doubled.

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• 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 exclusively to large corporations, governments, and to extremely wealthy individuals.

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• I’m a biographer; I can live with a little hyperbole.

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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.

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Ron Chernow (49)

Birth:	1949
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Biographer

About

Ronald Chernow is an American biographer. He is the author of Washington: A Life, Alexander Hamilton, The House of Morgan, and Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr., among other works. He has won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Awardand other prestigious awards for his books, which have often been best-sellers.

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