Books:
- The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt
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Quotes:
- “You have undertaken to cheat me. I won’t sue you, for the law is too slow. I’ll ruin you.”
- “Never tell anyone what you are going to do till you’ve done it.”
- “Never be a minion, always be an owner.”
- “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.”
- “I am not afraid of my enemies, but by God, you must look out when you get among your friends.”
- “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.”
- “I have been insane on the subject of money-making all my life.”
- “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.”