Hetty Green

“After your business is over, you may take your colleague to dinner or the theater or allow him to take you, but wait until the transaction has been closed and the money paid.”

“I believe in getting in at the bottom and out at the top. I like to buy railroad stock and mortgage or mortgage bonds. When I see a good thing going cheap because nobody wants it, I buy a lot of it and I tuck it away.”

“And I actually think there's a lot of genius to the fact that she didn't let anybody else filter information. All the reading that she did, all the work that she did, was contained in one, inside of one brain. And I think actually over time, Gives you a massiv…”

“She's going to become the richest woman in America and maybe the richest woman, self-made woman in a, in the world, not by investing the principle of her family's fortune, but by investing the investment income. She turned, she's going to turn a yearly cash fl…”

“And in fact, she, to this day, she's in the Guinness book of world records as the world's greatest miser.”

“She bought property under fictitious names and stocks under other identities.”

“Heady shares provide nearly half of Alexander's 15,000 share victory, and she winds up making a profit of 385,000 dollars, nearly double what she would have made just by holding on a little longer.”

“She lent the cash strapped city of New York, a million dollars at the rate of two percent, which is well below the prevailing rate of three to three and a half percent.”

“Most of them were acquired because of, they were through foreclosure on the mortgages that she held. She rarely, if ever bought a property outright on the open market.”