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1. "Washington once advised his adopted grandson that where there is no occasion for expressing an opinion, it is best to be silent. For there is nothing more certain than that it is at all times more easy to make enemies than friends." ~ Ron Chernow

2. "And shall we at last become the victims of our own abominable lust of gain? Forbid it, Heaven." Washington himself could be a hard driving businessman, yet he found the rapacity of many vendors unconscionable. As he told George Mason, he thought it the intent of the speculators, various tribes of money makers and stock jobbers of all denominations, to continue the war for their own private emolument, without considering that their avarice and thirst for gain must plunge everything in one common ruin." ~ Ron Chernow

3. "[Philip's death was] beyond comparison the most afflicting of my life.... He was truly a fine youth. But why should I repine? It was the will of heaven and he is now out of the reach of the seductions and calamities of a world full of folly, full of vice, full of danger, of least value in proportion as it is best known. I firmly trust also that he has safely reached the haven of eternal repose and felicity. (Alexander Hamilton letter to Benjamin Rush about the death of his 19-year old son from mortal wounds inflicted from a duel.)" ~ Ron Chernow

4. "Perseverance in almost any plan is better than fickleness and fluctuation. (Alexander Hamilton, July 1792)" ~ Ron Chernow

5. "Many mickles make a muckle." ~ Ron Chernow

6. "(regarding Charles Lee) This eccentric and notably slovenly man was always trailed by his beloved dogs. "When I can be convinced that men are as worthy objects as dogs", he once explained, "I shall transfer my benevolence to them." ~ Ron Chernow

7. "The suspect nature of these stories can be seen in the anecdote Jefferson told of Hamilton visiting his lodging in 1792 and inquiring about three portraits on the wall. "They are my trinity of the three greatest men the world has ever produced," Jefferson replied: "Sir Francis Bacon, Sir Isaac Newton, and John Locke." Hamilton supposedly replied, "The greatest man that ever lived was Julius Casar." ~ Ron Chernow

8. "A prudent silence will frequently be taken for wisdom and a sentence or two cautiously thrown in will sometimes gain the palm of knowledge, while a man well informed but indiscreet and unreserved will not uncommonly talk himself out of all consideration and weight. (Alexander Hamilton's 'thesis on discretion' written to his son James shortly before his fatal duel with Burr.)" ~ Ron Chernow

9. "A romantic striving for an impossible ideal." ~ Ron Chernow

10. "In waiting for the glorious moment of that first book contract, writers must have giant reservoirs of patience. Yet they must persevere because they don't know the destiny that is being worked out for them. They creep humbly along the ground, without the spacious aerial vision of their lives that would show them the destiny in store for them." ~ Ron Chernow

11. "In his self-serving view of events, Lee believed that he had performed a prodigious feat, rescuing his overmatched army from danger and organizing an orderly retreat. "'The American troops would not stand the British bayonets," he insisted to Washington. "You damned poltroon," Washington rejoined, "you never tried them!" Always reluctant to resort to profanities, the chaste Washington cursed at Lee "till the leaves shook on the tree," recalled General Scott. "Charming! Delightful! Never have I enjoyed such swearing before or since." ~ Ron Chernow

12. "Washington dwelt upon the transcendent importance of education underscores the stigma that he felt about having missed college. As president, he lectured a young relative about to enter college that "every hour misspent is lost forever" and that "future years cannot compensate for lost days at this period of your life."15" ~ Ron Chernow

13. "After the French and Indian War, the British vacillated about whether to swap all of Canada for the island of Guadeloupe; in the event the French toasted their own diplomatic cunning in retaining the sugar island." ~ Ron Chernow

14. "When the couple rode by the shore one day, John became so enraged at Fidelia that he drove their carriage straight into Chesapeake Bay. When Fidelia asked where he was going, John replied with a sneer, "To hell, Madam." To which she retorted boldly, "Drive on, sir."17" ~ Ron Chernow

15. "it is a maxim founded on the universal experience of mankind that no nation is to be trusted farther than it is bound by its interest." ~ Ron Chernow

16. "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." ~ Ron Chernow

17. "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." ~ Ron Chernow

18. "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." ~ Ron Chernow

19. "A crash really occurs when you suddenly have a violent downturn in the market that then heralds a long bull market." ~ Ron Chernow

20. "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." ~ Ron Chernow

21. "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." ~ Ron Chernow

22. "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." ~ Ron Chernow

23. "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." ~ Ron Chernow

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

25. "By the late 1980s people realized that houses did not always appreciate and that they could fluctuate like any other market commodity." ~ Ron Chernow

26. "Hamilton had one of those extraordinary 18th-century minds that touched on virtually every major topic of the day." ~ Ron Chernow

27. "I'm a biographer; I can live with a little hyperbole." ~ Ron Chernow

28. "In the 1920s you could buy stocks on margin. You could put 10 percent down and borrow the rest against your stocks." ~ Ron Chernow

29. "In the 1970s we saw a massive shift of household savings from the banks to the brokerage firms." ~ Ron Chernow

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