342 Quotes by Ron Chernow

The public has lost faith in the ability of Social Security and Medicare to provide for old age. They've lost faith in the banking system and in conventional medical insurance.

The founding fathers were not only brilliant, they were system builders and systematic thinkers. They came up with comprehensive plans and visions.

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.

Stock market corrections, although painful at the time, are actually a very healthy part of the whole mechanism, because there are always speculative excesses that develop, particularly during the long bull market.

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

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.

There is no country in the world where it's as easy to find venture capital in the stock market as the United States.

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

The mutual fund industry and small investors are very relentless and very unforgiving if people don't perform.