Quotes from Ron Chernow

Jack often seemed embarrassed by his remoteness from Pierpont.

Where Junius had accommodated the Rothschilds, Pierpont defied them, secretly demanding a higher commission on the issue

She confided in John, felt a peaceful glow in his presence, and he responded with deep compassion.

Writing about dead white males seems to be out of favor among academics.

If you go back to the time of J.P. Morgan, the world of high finance was completely wholesale. The prestigious investment banks on Wall Street appealed exclusively to large corporations, governments, and to extremely wealthy individuals.

When news of the crash came, probably a lot of people in small towns and farms across America felt a sense of grim satisfaction that the sinners had finally been punished for their wicked ways.

When the market is just going up, up, and up, we all tend to be blind to the holes in the market. They're all papered over by the rise.

Gates expressed Rockefeller's disappointment at Harper's failure to raise money from outside sources to reduce the deficit.

Two years ago he dodged newspaper men. Now he courts them.

The zest of the work is maintained by something better than the mere accumulation of money.

It often happens that our zeal is at variance with our understanding.

Already a mature businessman, he relied on Andrews only as a technician and assumed control of all other aspects of the business.

Low kerosene prices, a boon to consumers, were catastrophic for refiners, who saw the profit margin between crude- and refined-oil prices shrink to a vanishing point.

John's judgment' on any question was to her always right and the last word.

A very smart monopolist, Rockefeller kept prices low enough to retain control of the market but not so low as to wipe out all lingering competitors.

Rockefeller believed that nonprofit institutions should be even more circumspect with money than business organizations:

Cartoonists stereotyped Rockefeller as a churchgoing hypocrite.

He is not easy to keep track of and I have almost given up.

She saw qualities in him still invisible to the world at large.

Having discarded several older partners, the young man had no real business mentors, heroes, or role models and was beholden to no one.

I loaned him the first money he invested in it and I helped him all along.

Then, on Friday, September 11, 1789, thirty-four-year-old Alexander Hamilton was officially nominated for the job. The appointment was confirmed by the Senate the same day.

His worst enemy would succumb to this treatment.

This statement tallied with Washington's often expressed view that citizens had to feel before they saw—that is, they couldn't react to abstract problems, only to tangible ones.