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.
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"I have never been afraid to take risks."
"I don’t care what the newspapers say about me as long as they spell my name right."
"I have never been afraid to challenge authority."
"I have been through many a storm, and I am not afraid of another."
"The only thing that counts is results."
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.
Testimony before Congress during the Civil War, regarding his offer of a ship to the Union Navy
Date: 1862
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