"It was the custom when men received nominations to come to me for contributions, and I made them and considered them …"

"The ultimate result will be to annihilate the Indians & open up the Big Horn & Black Hills to development & settlemen…"

"I sometimes think I should like to give up business entirely. The care and worriment attending large business interes…"

"I judge property myself by its net earning power; that is the only rule I have been able to get.… This whole island M…"

"My idea is, that if capital and labor are left alone they will mutually regulate each other. People who think they ca…"

"Corporations are going, we are told, to destroy the country. But what would this country be but for corporations? Who…"

"No man can control Wall Street. Wall Street is like the ocean. No man can govern it. It is too vast. Wall Street is f…"

"I never notice what is said about me. I am credited with things I have never done, and abused for them. It would be i…"

"I have the disadvantage of not being sociable. Wall Street men are fond of company and sport. A man makes one hundred…"

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