Ron Chernow

“Hamilton was extremely combative. Not only was he combative, but he also overreacted to anything he perceived as a threat or a criticism.”

“In many ways, the North won the Civil War militarily and then lost the peace. You know, a group of writers, included many Confederate generals, began a school of thought called the Lost Cause in which they began to romanticize the Confederacy.”

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

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

“I'm dubious about having Social Security put into the stock market. I think that we have gotten very far away from the idea that there's something sacrosanct about retirement investments.”

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