The most important paragraph in business literature?
The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt by T.J. Stiles page 421
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How do I make a profit? Vanderbilt would rhetoricall ask in court in 1869. “I make it b of that road for has ever been in it, then I do not want to be in the road.” He would elabo. rateat Ienoth on this approach. “That has been m-Lprinciple with steam-shi s. I never had any advanta e of anybody in running steamshi se but if I could not run a steamship alongside another man and do it as well as he for twenty )casent less than it cost him I would leave the ship.”
