Hamilton was extremely combative. Not only was he combative, but he also overreacted to anything he perceived as a threat or a criticism. Ron Chernow Read Quote
The thing with all the Founding Fathers, one of the most common words they used was ‘posterity.’ They were constantly referring to posterity. Ron Chernow Read Quote
In the 1970s we saw a massive shift of household savings from the banks to the brokerage firms. Ron Chernow Read Quote
A crash really occurs when you suddenly have a violent downturn in the market that then heralds a long bull market. Ron Chernow Read Quote
When the market is just going up, up, and up, we all tend to be blind to the holes in the market. They’re all papered over by the rise. Ron Chernow Read Quote
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. Ron Chernow Read Quote
By the late 1980s people realized that houses did not always appreciate and that they could fluctuate like any other market commodity. Ron Chernow Read Quote
I’m sure there are many more people who can identify with failure and hardship in life than with the success of an Alexander Hamilton or a John D. Rockefeller. Ron Chernow Read Quote
Hamilton had a certain social versatility, and in a way, that is understandable because he’s someone who rises up from the lowest rungs of society and then scales the top. And he gets to know people from every strata along the way. Ron Chernow Read Quote
