Quotes by Jay Gould - Page 1

I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half.
Jay Gould /
Class
Half
Political
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Having the ability to get and gain respect through your work is great but you have to be careful not to get carried away.
Jay Gould /
Ability
Be Careful
Gains
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I do not believe that since man was in the habit of living on this planet anyone has ever lived possessed of the impudence of Jay Gould.
Jay Gould /
Men
Believe
Habit
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In a Republican district I was a Republican. In a Democratic district I was a Democrat. And in a doubtful district, I was Doubtful. But I was always for Erie.
Jay Gould /
Politics
Political
Republican
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I never notice what is said about me. I am credited with things I have never done, and abused for them. It would be idle to attempt to contradict newspaper talk and street rumors.
Jay Gould /
Done
Rumor
Would Be
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No man can control Wall Street. Wall Street is like the ocean. No man can govern it. It is too vast. Wall Street is full of eddies and currents. The thing to do is to watch them, to exercise a little common sense, and … to come out on top.
Jay Gould /
Ocean
Men
Exercise
Wall
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I sometimes think I should like to give up business entirely. The care and worriment attending large business interests are very great, but besides that fact the manner in which motives are impugned and characters assailed is most unpleasant
Jay Gould /
Character
Giving Up
Thinking
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My idea is, that if capital and labor are left alone they will mutually regulate each other. People who think they can regulate all mankind and get wrong ideas which they believe to be panaceas for every ill cause much trouble to both employers and employees by their interference.
Jay Gould /
Believe
Ideas
Thinking
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I judge property myself by its net earning power; that is the only rule I have been able to get.... This whole island [Manhattan] was once bought for a few strings of beads. But now you will find this property valued by its earning power, by its rent power, and that is the way to value a railroad or telegraph.
Jay Gould /
Islands
Judging
Railroads
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It was the custom when men received nominations to come to me for contributions, and I made them and considered them good paying investments for the company. In a Republican district I was a strong Republican; in a Democratic district I was Democratic, and in doubtful districts I was doubtful. In politics I was an Erie Railroad man all the time.
Jay Gould /
Men
Railroads
Strong
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I have the disadvantage of not being sociable. Wall Street men are fond of company and sport. A man makes one hundred thousand dollars there and immediately buys a yacht, begins to race fast horses, and becomes a sport generally. My tastes lie in a different direction. When business hours are over I go home and spend the remainder of the day with my wife, my children, and books of my library. Every man has natural inclinations of his own. Mine are domestic. They are not calculated to make me particularly popular in Wall Street, and I cannot help that.
Jay Gould /
Sports
Children
Horse
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