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…

- Jay Gould

I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half.

- Jay Gould

I sometimes think I should like to give up business entirely. The care and worriment attending large business interests are very great, but besides t…

- Jay Gould

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 …

- Jay Gould

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 w…

- Jay Gould

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 imme…

- Jay Gould

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 …

- Jay Gould

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 …

- Jay Gould

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