Home / Quotes / Quote by Jay Gould

Quote by 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 that fact the manner in which motives are impugned and characters assailed is most unpleasant”

Quote by Jay Gould

Author

Jay Gould was a prominent American financier and railroad magnate in the 19th century. Born on May 27, 1836, and died on December 2, 1892, Gould was known for his remarkable achievements in the fields of railroads and finance. He was considered one of the wealthiest and most controversial figures in American history. more

You May Also Like

“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.”

Men Littles Common Watches Streets Wall Exercise Ocean Currents Common Sense Things To Do

Author: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 wrong ideas which they believe to be panaceas for every ill cause much trouble to both employers and employees by their interference.”

People Ifs Thinking Believe Ideas Left Causes Trouble Mankind Labor Ill Employee Employers Interference Left Alone Panacea Wrong Ideas

Author:Jay Gould

“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.”

Said Done Would Be Streets Newspapers Idle Rumor

Author:Jay Gould

“To be reborn, you have to die first.”

Firsts Dies Reborn

Author:Lucien Carr

“I love first times. I want my whole life to be composed of them. Life is only interesting if life is wide.”

Ifs Want Firsts Whole Life Is Interesting First Time Wide Whole Life

Author:Lucien Carr

“Each time I go to a place I have not seen before I hope it will be as different as possible from the places I already know. I assume it is natural for a traveler to seek diversity, and that it is the human element that makes him most aware of difference. If people and their manner of living were alike everywhere, there would not be much point in moving from one place to another.”

People Ifs Knows Humans Different Moving Natural Differences Elements Diversity Assuming Traveler

Book:Their Heads Are Green And Their Hands Are Blue

Source: Their Heads Are Green And Their Hands Are Blue

“Better to live hundred years as a millionaire, than one week in poverty!”

Years Poverty Week Hundred Millionaire

Author:Bob Rock

“I can't stand rap....people who can't sing do rap....you can sing rebellion as well as talk it....Hitler would have been in a rap band.”

People Wells Has Beens I Can Band Rap Rebellion

Author:John Entwistle

“I'm only interested in heavy metal when it's me who's playing it. I suppose it's a bit like smelling your own farts.”

Bits Heavy Metals Fart Heavy Metal

Author:John Entwistle

“The Netherlands are wet, flat and full of stoned people.”

People Flats Wet Netherlands

Author:John Entwistle