After being Washington's aide for four years and becoming the hero of Yorktown, Hamilton was viewed with a great deal of suspicion because of his association with Tories.

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

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.

I'm a biographer; I can live with a little hyperbole.

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

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.

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 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.

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.

Early on, New York already had a national and even international identity.

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

Pleasure that isn't paid for is as insipid as everything else that's free.

When I am upset about something, it gives me a stomachache. I have to address it right away so that I don't make myself sick.

Education is only like good culture,--it changes the size, but not the sort.

To forget is the great secret of strong creative natures; to forget is the way nature herself who knows no past and who at every hour begins the mysteries of her untiring labors afresh.

Never give up hope, spring will come.

The German is the discipline of fear; ours is the discipline of faith — and faith will triumph.

We are to eat food otherwise we don't live and sometimes we eat food that is very damaging.

I'll live for me and for other real people. Until some god gives me five minutes of their time...they deserve none of mine.

Every time the rider forgets to regulate the cadence, the horse begins to take control.

If you want to kill an idea without being identified as the assassin, suggest that the legal department take a look at it.