Cornelius Vanderbilt idézet

Cornelius Vanderbilt amerikai üzletember, vasút- és hajómágnás, a korabeli Egyesült Államok egyik leggazdagabb embere, a Vanderbilt-család alapítója. Adománya tette lehetővé a róla elnevezett Vanderbilt Egyetem létrehozását. Wikipedia  

✵ 27. május 1794 – 4. január 1877
Cornelius Vanderbilt fénykép
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Cornelius Vanderbilt: Idézetek angolul

“Gentlemen,
You have undertaken to cheat me. I won't sue you, for law is too slow. I'll ruin you.
Yours truly,
Cornelius Vanderbilt”

Said to be the entirety of a letter to Charles Morgan and C. K. Garrison, quoted in an obituary, "Commodore Vanderbilt's Life" (5 January 1877) New York Times. Stiles, in The First Tycoon (2009) doubts this. He notes that there is no earlier source, that Vanderbilt was no stranger to the courts, and that he never otherwise closed letters with "yours truly."
Disputed

“Let them do what I have done.”

Often attributed, but without a contemporary source, as a remark on being asked to contribute to charity for the poor. See for example Commodore (2009) by Edward J. Renehan