"If I could not run a steamboat alongside another man and do it as well as he for twenty percent less, I would leave the business."

"I don't care half so much about making money as I do about making my point, and coming out ahead."

"I have made my money by selling what other people wanted."

"I ain't got time for dyspepsia. Nor heart trouble. Nor family. I got a h*ll of a job to chew off."

"I'm too big a fellow to live in Staten Island. My name means something in Wall Street."