top of page
Exlpore more Faith quotes
Explore more quotes by Ron Chernow

"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."

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

"Partly because his life ended before the age of 50, Hamilton was defined by the other founding fathers, and he managed, with amazing consistency, to alienate most of them."

"I don't think that a mutual fund that invests exclusively in biotech start-ups or invests exclusively in companies in Thailand offers any great safety or diversification."

"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."

"There is a kind of fear, approaching a panic, that's spreading through the Baby Boom Generation, which has suddenly discovered that it will have to provide for its own retirement."

"That strategy of buy and hold, which is the sound and sensible one for the individual, can have very dangerous and perverse effects for the market as a whole."

"The securities laws of the 1930s were so important because it forced companies to file registration statements and issue prospectuses, and it remedied the imbalance of information."

"In the 1970s we saw a massive shift of household savings from the banks to the brokerage firms."
bottom of page