Cornelius Vanderbilt

I never made a dollar that I didn't earn.

I do not care for your opinion. I have my own.

I don't make money to spend it. I make money to make more money.

The public be damned!

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

I have been insane on the subject of moneymaking all my life.

I am not afraid of my enemies, but by God, you must look out when you get among your friends.

There is no friendship in trade.

Got to look out for yourself. Nobody else ain't going to do it.

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness.

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

I guess I've built a hundred steamships and steamboats… I never paid a dollar of insurance… Good vessels and good masters – that's the best kind of insurance. Why should I pay somebody else to carry my risks?

Ain't got time to be sick.

I'll have more than Astor, by Christ!

I can't help it, Sophy. Christ, gal, I got work to do. What? Another kid? How you do it?

Any fool can make a fortune; it takes a man of brains to hold onto it.

Never be a minion, always be an owner.

Say nothing and jump quick.

If a fellow's got guts he can always win.

Tricks ain't good business.