Cornelius Vanderbilt

“Jay noticed that Barnard's injunction, injunction, that's the judge that Vanderbilt paid off against new share issuance enjoying the Erie board and only the board. What if another entity say Erie's executive committee issued the stock instead of the board? Jay…”

“Instead, J. Gold and Fisk made a profit by buying cows in Chicago and shipping them to market at Vanderbilt's bargain rates.”

“Vanderbilt believed that the share count was fixed, so he kept buying. And Vanderbilt didn't know that the stocks he's buying were issued by his enemies, right, the other people on the board, and so that money, they wind up taking him for like seven million do…”

“When they were hiding in New Jersey, Vanderbilt went and put a bounty on Daniel Drew's head.”

“Rockefeller, he was asked questions like, who's the best businessman you ever know, you've ever known, and he said, without hesitation, Jay Gold, and then Cornelius Vanderbilt, when he was in his seventies and by far the richest American alive, he said that Ja…”

“When he died, if you could on the day of his death, right, if you could convert all of his assets into dollars, he would have had five percent of the money supply. He would have had one out of every 20 dollars in circulation.”

“In the first 12 months, it delivered Vanderbilt per, a personal profit of tens of millions of dollars, in, in today's equivalent, tens of millions of dollars.”

“Remember, it says that he's going to die with more money than U.S. Treasury. He is richer.”

“William Walker invades Nicaragua, winds up becoming, making himself president of the country, and then making this very fatal mistake of taking some of Cornelius' property and other business assets that Cornelius had in Nicaragua.”

“He literally sends people to try to kill him. Hires multiple, multiple mercenaries. That is not hyperbolic. Like, that's exactly what he did.”

“I would consider, like, when I think of Cornelius Vanderbilt, it's like, who would you compare to people living today? I wouldn't think of other entrepreneurs. I would think of people, like, at the state level. I would think of, like, almost like Vladimir Puti…”

“For two months, Aspen Wall had paid him 40,000 dollars a month on the condition that Vanderbilt not put his steamers on the Panama run in competition with Aspen Wall's own vessels. That money went to Vanderbilt personally, not to the transit company, even thou…”

“The invasion of Nicaragua by the other Central American government armies had been motivated, financed, and equipped by Vanderbilt.”

“In reality, the Navy secretary at the request of the Secretary of State and the urging of Cornelius Vanderbilt had given Davis the job of ending the war by removing William Walker from Nicaragua.”

“At one time or another, Vanderbilt got into bed with all of his enemies. If they were prepared to submit to him, and most of them were.”

“Vanderbilt's approach to business was often marked by a sly concealment of his intentions, keeping information closed while simultaneously gathering intelligence on competitors. This strategic obstruccation Allowed him to make moves that others often couldn't …”

“That gunpowder-filled firewood had been planted at the riverbank depot weeks before the disaster. It was planted there by a mercenary in the employment of Cornelius Vanderbilt.”

“He immediately dictated a short letter to both Morgan and Garrison. Gentlemen, you have undertaken to cheat me. I won't sue you, for the law is too slow. I'll ruin you. Yours truly, Cornelius Vanderbilt.”

“Vanderbilt had more money than all Central American governments combined.”

“She gets hysterical about the plan move from Staten Island to Manhattan, and so Vanderbilt puts her in a private mental asylum for three months until she changes her mind.”

“A new steamship operator named Independent Opposition Line was advertised in New York newspapers. For a 150 dollars, this new line would take you to California via Panama. He starts out, and like, go back to that meeting with the Secretary of State. Listen to …”

“And Rockefeller would only meet with Vanderbilt if Vanderbilt came to Cleveland and met Rockefeller inside of his office.”