Jay Gould: Quotes about business

Jay Gould was American businessman. Explore interesting quotes on business.
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“Corporations are going, we are told, to destroy the country. But what would this country be but for corporations? Who have developed it? Corporations. Who transact the most marvelous business the world has ever seen? Corporations.”

Jay Gould

Interview with the New York Herald
Jay Gould : A Character Sketch (1893)

World , Business , Country

“I sometimes think I wouldn't 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

As quoted in the Commercial and Financial Chronicle (25 March 1882)

Motivation , Business , Thinking

“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

Also quoted in The Life and Legend of Jay Gould (1986) by Maury Klein
Jay Gould : A Character Sketch (1893)

Men , Children , Lie , Books