Jay Gould

“His 5000 dollar investment, an investment that others on Wall Street thought was a loser, brought him a 100,000 dollars, which would be equal to 2.5 million dollars in today's dollars, and he is 28 years old.”

“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…”

“The Tanner appears to take the greatest share of capital, but merely processes that capital, his expenses being extensive. His risks are real and his labor heavy. The shippers deal with the next largest sums, but again, they have extensive expenses and much wo…”

“Later on, he meets, like, a young Thomas Edison, because he's gonna wind up buying Thomas Edison's, one of Thomas Edison's first inventions, which is a way to send multiple messages across telegraph lines, and Thomas Edison thought Jay was just one of the weir…”

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

“Mary was dead at age 35, a victim of typhoid fever. And this is one of the most chilling sentences in this entire book. Jay later said that the only thing he remembered about his mother were her cold lips.”

“I avoid bad luck by being patient. Whenever I'm obliged to get into a fight, I always wait and let the other fellow get tired first.”

“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…”

“He sent it to a printer shop in Philadelphia that happened to burn down. From his notes, he rewrote the 426 page book.”

“When he died, he left his firstborn son fifteen million dollars, and all the rest of his kids, I think the five other kids, ten million dollars.”

“That's the thing about gold. He lied, he cheated, he stole, but he was so good at what he did, so intelligent in the execution, and such a clean, kind, and industrious family man, that try as you might, you can't hate him properly.”

“Through clever financial maneuvers, he gained control over one of every six miles of the country's rapidly expanding network for railroad tracks, coming close to creating the first truly transcontinental railroad and making himself one of the richest men in Am…”

“Having failed to convince Canadian authorities to hand over Gordon Gordon, Jay Gould attempted to kidnap Gordon Gordon with the help of his associates and a future member of Congress. Future members of Congress. So you got Lauren Fletcher, John Giffelian, and …”

“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…”

“So when they think about who to target for the largest possible rebates, they concentrate on the Erie railroad. Why? Because it was one of the smaller railroads at the time and therefore more hungry for traffic. This deal at Rockefeller is going to work out wi…”