"The public be damned! I am working for my stockholders."

"The secret of success is to mind your own business."

"I'd rather have a dollar in my pocket than a hundred in the bank."

"Don't depend on any man. Get your own land and make your own money."

"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."