"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 m…"

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

"I don't think much of a man who is not willing to take a chance."

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

"There is no friendship in trade."