“If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else.”

“If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else.”

“I don't care half so much about making money as I do about making my point, and coming out ahead.”

“There is no friendship in trade.”

“It is not according to my mode of doing things, to bring a suit against a man that I have the power in my own hands to punish.”

“What do I care about law? Ain't I got the power?”

“I have always served the public to the best of my ability. Why? Because, like every other man, it is to my interest to do so.”

“it is hard for me to believe that Cornelius Vanderbilt did not sense, at some point in time, in some dim billiard room of his unconscious, that when he built “The Breakers” he damned himself.”

“I've never found time to indulge more than a single ambition.”

“The speed of transportation largely determined the speed of information.”

“He did have his beliefs, chiefly in his own genius.”