“There is no friendship in trade.”
“If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else.”
Cornelius Vanderbilt“I don't care half so much about making money as I do about making my point, and coming out ahead.”
Cornelius Vanderbilt“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.”
Cornelius Vanderbilt“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.”
Cornelius Vanderbilt“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.”
Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem“I've never found time to indulge more than a single ambition.”
Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr.“The speed of transportation largely determined the speed of information.”
T.J. Stiles, The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt“He did have his beliefs, chiefly in his own genius.”
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