Cornelius Vanderbilt — "The only way to win is to play to win."
The only way to win is to play to win.
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"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."
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"I have been in business for fifty years, and I have never seen a man who could not be bought."
"I have been as good a friend to you as you have been to me. I don't care a snap for your laws. I have got the power, and I'll use it."
"I don't believe in charity. I believe in hard work."
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.