Jay Gould

"Sentiment is the enemy of profit."

"The ambitious must be willing to walk on others."

"I created a legacy of industrial dominion."

"A man's ambition determines his destiny."

"I believe wealth justifies any action."

"The strong shall inherit the earth and its profits."

"A monopoly is the goal of every industrialist."

"I never apologized for my business methods."

"The world rewards cunning over virtue."

"A fortune requires the elimination of competition."

"I view society as a hierarchy of power."

"The man who has made no enemies has made no mark in the world."

"I love the money better than I love the power. The power is born of the money."

"A man must have money and strength and health; but the greatest of these is health."

"The public be damned. I don't take any stock in this silly nonsense about working for anybody's good but our own."

"Most of the calamities which befall us are occasioned by our own ignorance or negligence."

"I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half."

"The buying of the votes of Congress has its good side."

"Railroads are the arteries of this nation. He who controls them controls progress itself."

"A person without enemies is a person without character."

"I am satisfied with the business I have created; history will be the judge of my methods."

"The market rewards those who understand human nature better than those who understand balance sheets."

"Competition is the life of trade, and the death of those who cannot adapt."

"The railroad is destiny in steel and steam."

"Fortunes are made in the doing, not in the dreaming."

"I have always found that if I work hard enough, I can bend the market to my will."

"The question is not whether you can do something, but whether you should."

"A fortune lost through folly is merely nature's way of correcting mistakes."

"Men are moved by only two levers: fear and self-interest."

"The telegraph is the nervous system of commerce."