342 Quotes by Ron Chernow

Mr. Monroe, if you have come to tell me that you repent, that you are sorry, very sorry, for the misrepresentations and the slanders and the stories you circulated against my dear husband, if you have come to say this, I understand it. But otherwise, no lapse of time, no nearness to the grave, makes any difference.

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.

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 window into a very large world.

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 complacency because people will be blinded to some risk.

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.

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.

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.

The best argument for mutual funds is that they offer safety and diversification. But they don't necessarily offer safety and diversification.

Mutual funds have historically offered safety and diversification. And they spare you the responsibility of picking individual stocks.