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The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt QUOTES

The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt QUOTES

1 " Confrontation was the stuff of daily life. "

― T.J. Stiles , The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt

2 " What distinguished him in a moment of crisis was his self-command. "

― T.J. Stiles , The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt

3 " He did have his beliefs, chiefly in his own genius. "

― T.J. Stiles , The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt

4 " He may have confused honor with with with ruthlessness. "

― T.J. Stiles , The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt

5 " The speed of transportation largely determined the speed of information. "

― T.J. Stiles , The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt

6 " If he had learned anything from his parents, he learned that business was a matter of relationships. "

― T.J. Stiles , The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt

7 " Thanks in large part to reduced transportation costs, San Francisco matured from a dust-blown, mud-lined tent camp with gambling saloons into a brick-walled, warehouse-filled commercial center with gambling saloons. "

― T.J. Stiles , The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt

8 " Gentlemen: You have undertaken to cheat me. I won’t sue, for the law is too slow. I’ll ruin you. Yours truly, Cornelius Vanderbilt. "

― T.J. Stiles , The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt

9 " IT IS AS IF WE ALL CARRY in our makeup the effects of accidents that have befallen our ancestors,” writes V. S. Naipaul, "

― T.J. Stiles , The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt

10 " If he had been able to sell all his assets at full market value at the moment of his death, in January of that year, he would have taken one out of every twenty dollars in circulation, including cash and demand deposits.2 "

― T.J. Stiles , The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt

11 " Americans from other regions, she wrote, described them “as sly, grinding, selfish, and tricking. The Yankees… will avow these qualities themselves with a complacent smile, and boast that no people on earth can match them at over-reaching in a bargain.” It was a curious kind of vanity, she observed; if you listened to a Yankee describe himself, “you might fancy him a god—though a tricky one. "

― T.J. Stiles , The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt

12 " The prosperity of a nation’s commerce cannot be durable, unless it be founded upon a solid basis,” Rochefoucauld-Liancourt warned; “and the solid basis of a nation’s commerce is the produce of its soil, of its manufactures. "

― T.J. Stiles , The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt