Cornelius Vanderbilt — "The time to buy is when there's blood in the streets."
The time to buy is when there's blood in the streets.
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About Cornelius Vanderbilt (1794-1877)
American shipping and railroad magnate whose New York Central railroad and aggressive consolidation built the largest fortune in 19th-century America. Closely associated with John D. Rockefeller (later Gilded Age titan who learned the consolidation playbook). For an intellectual contrast, see Jay Gould, railroad speculator (1836-1892) — Vanderbilt built and ran railroads; Gould watered stock and manipulated markets. Their Erie Railroad rate-war and Gould's Black Friday (1869) gold-corner schemes were the public foil to Vanderbilt's quieter operational consolidation. The cleanest 'industrialist vs speculator' Gilded Age pairing.
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Attributed, but more famously associated with Baron Rothschild and later J.P. Morgan, though Vanderbilt's aggressive acquisition strategies align with the sentiment.
Date: mid-1800s
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