Best Cornelius Vanderbilt Quotes And Thoughts

 

 

 

Cornelius Vanderbilt was an American business magnate who constructed his riches in railways and transportation. In the wake of working with his dad’s business, Vanderbilt worked his way into leadership positions in the inland water trade and put resources into the quickly developing railroad industry. Nicknamed “The Commodore”, he is known for owning the New York Central Railroad. His biographer T. J. Stiles says, “He boundlessly improved and extended the country’s transportation framework, adding to a change of the very geology of the United States. He grasped new advances and new types of business association and utilized them to compete…He made the corporate economy that would characterize the United States into the 21st century.”

 

 

Here are some of the Best Cornelius Vanderbilt Quotes

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” ~ Cornelius Vanderbilt

“Got to look out for yourself. Nobody else ain’t going to do it.” ~ Cornelius Vanderbilt

“The more of it (money) one has the more one wants.” ~ Cornelius Vanderbilt

“I have been insane on the subject of money making all my life.” ~ Cornelius Vanderbilt

 

“Never be a minion, always be an owner.” ~ Cornelius Vanderbilt

“Pay ready money for everything you buy, and never sell anything you don’t own.” ~ Cornelius Vanderbilt

“I just know I could make me a heap of money.” ~ Cornelius Vanderbilt

 

“Never tell anyone what you are going to do till you have done it.” ~ Cornelius Vanderbilt

“Say nothing and jump quickly.” ~ Cornelius Vanderbilt

“I have always served the public to the best of my ability. Why? Because, like every other man, it is to my interest to do so.” ~ Cornelius Vanderbilt

 

“Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done well to thee.” ~ Cornelius Vanderbilt

“In history, as in so much of life, you pays your money and you takes your choice.” ~ Cornelius Vanderbilt

“I am not afraid of my enemies, but by God, you must look out when you get among your friends.” ~ Cornelius Vanderbilt

 

“I don’t care half so much about making money as I do about making my point, and coming out ahead.” ~ Cornelius Vanderbilt

“Got to spend some money, if you want to make anything. Can’t run a ferry that won’t run.” ~ Cornelius Vanderbilt

“There is no friendship in trade.” ~ Cornelius Vanderbilt

 

“I never tell what I’m going to do till I’ve done it.” ~ Cornelius Vanderbilt

 

 

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“Let them do what I have done.” ~ Cornelius Vanderbilt

“If a fellow’s got guts he can always win.” ~ Cornelius Vanderbilt

 

“The lack of money is the root of all evil.” ~ Cornelius Vanderbilt

“Honesty is the best policy – when there is money in it.” ~ Cornelius Vanderbilt

“What do I care about the law? Ain’t I got the power?” ~ Cornelius Vanderbilt

 

“A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.” ~ Cornelius Vanderbilt

“The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.” ~ Cornelius Vanderbilt

“If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else.” ~ Cornelius Vanderbilt

 

“My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.” ~ Cornelius Vanderbilt

“I’ve never found time to indulge more than a single ambition.” ~ Cornelius Vanderbilt

“Tricks ain’t good business.” ~ Cornelius Vanderbilt

 

“Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.” ~ Cornelius Vanderbilt

“Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness.” ~ Cornelius Vanderbilt

“We made it – I knew all it needed was guts.” ~ Cornelius Vanderbilt

 

“I can’t run a train as far as this permanently at a loss.” ~ Cornelius Vanderbilt

“It is not according to my mode of doing things, to bring a suit against a man that I have the power in my own hands to punish.” ~ Cornelius Vanderbilt

“My system of railroading is to take care of it just as careful as I would of my own household affairs, handle it just as though it was all mine; and take good care of its income; that is my aim, you know, and give that to the stockholders.” ~ Cornelius Vanderbilt

“All you have to do is attend to your own business, then go ahead.” ~ Cornelius Vanderbilt

 

 

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