Cornelius Vanderbilt

I don't care a snap for the public.

Never tell what you are going to do till you have done it.

I have been as you know, in the steamship business a long time. I have been in the railroad business a long time. I was opposed to this war at the beginning, but I am in favor of it now.

I have got the most money.

I don't want to go to heaven; I want to go to New York.

I have been in business for fifty years and I have never seen a man who was afraid to lose his money who made any.

Any man who is a man can do what he wants with his own.

I have always found that if you give a man a fair deal, he will do a good day's work.

I don't bother with anything that doesn't pay.

I have been in this country a long time, and I have seen many changes. But one thing has never changed: the desire of men to get rich.

I am not afraid of anything.

The time to buy is when there's blood in the streets.

I have always been a hard worker.

I don't want to make money; I want to make a fortune.

I have no education, but I have common sense.

I am a man of few words, but I mean what I say.

I don't believe in charity. I believe in hard work.

I don't like to lose.

I don't believe in luck. I believe in hard work and good planning.

I don't like to waste time.