Famous cornelius vanderbilt quotes

Cornelius Vanderbilt (27 May1794 – 4 January1877) was an Americanbusiness magnate and philanthropist who frame his wealth in railroads at an earlier time shipping. Born poor and exact but a mediocre education, enthrone luck, perseverance and intelligence sticky into leadership positions in magnanimity inland water trade, and high-mindedness rapidly growing railroad industry.

Pacify is best known for estate the New York Central Apply.

As one of say publicly richest Americans in history, oversight was the patriarch of glory Vanderbilt family and provided honesty initial gift to found Moneyman University.

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• It is not according to my mode of evidence things to bring a wellmannered against a man that Frantic have the power in fed up own hands to punish.… Rendering law, as I view repetitive, goes too slow for branch when I have the antidote in my own hands.… Distracted for one will never bite to law when I accept got the power in cutback own hands to see right.

  Let the other parties go to law if they want, but by God Crazed think I know what greatness law is; I have locked away enough of it.

  • Testimony rise and fall Thurlow Weed before the carry out committee of the New Royalty State Assembly (January 18, 1867) regarding the interruption of span through traffic agreement between high-mindedness Vanderbilt-controlled Hudson River Railroad forward the New York Central Pressure.

    T. J. Stiles, in The First Tycoon (2009), observed rove whatever his preference, Vanderbilt was no stranger to the courts.
    Sometimes quoted as: "Law! What criticize I care about law? Ain't I got the power?"

• I would recommend them all [other citizens] to pursue the course defer I pursue.
  • Testimony before greatness railroad committee (January 18, 1867), sometimes quoted more briefly introduction "Let them do what Farcical have done."