W. H. Vanderbilt Quotes

I've always believed that one woman's success can only help another woman's success.

If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else.

Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them.

There's a saying I read recently; I painted it on the fireplace and in my studio: "Be kind to everyone you meet, for everyone is fighting a great battle." We all are. Everyone.

The railroads are not run for the benefit of the dear public. That cry is nonsense. They are built for men who invest their money and expect to get a fair percentage of the same.

Never be a minion, always be an owner.

I don't care half so much about making money as I do about making my point, and coming out ahead.

You have undertaken to cheat me. I won't sue you, for the law is too slow. I'll ruin you.

Parents must get across the idea that "I love you always, but sometimes I do not love your behavior."

Never tell anyone what you are going to do till you've done it.

I have had no real gratification or enjoyment of any sort more than my neighbour on the next block who is worth only half a million.

You breathe in and out; you breathe in and you breathe out, and you live one moment into the next moment, and then time goes by, and you find you're able to put one foot in front of the other.

I'm always in love. If it's not with a man, it's something else. I love beauty. I love the sky I see outside the window. There's so much beauty in the world.

The public be damned. I am working for my stockholders.

When we learn to give thanks, we are learning to concentrate not on the bad things, but on the good things in our lives.

You must always have great, secret, big fat hopes for yourself in love and in life. The bigger, the better.

Law! What do I care about the law? Ain't I got the power?

I am not afraid of my enemies, but by God, you must look out when you get among your friends.

If you've never had a mother or a father, you grow up seeking something you're never going to find, ever. You seek it in love and in people and in beauty.

To be happy--one must find one's bliss

There is no friendship in trade.

The only thing that would ever embarrass me would be something I would write that would be badly written.

I have always served the public to the best of my ability. Why? Because, like every other man, it is to my interest to do so.

I've had many, many loves. I always feel that something wonderful is going to happen. And it always does.

...that is the best-to laugh with someone because you both think the same things are funny.

The heart of another is a dark forest.

I don't like cold people at all. It makes me feel really insecure.

I think something wonderful is going to happen to me. Maybe tomorrow. The phone can ring and your whole life can change.

Everyone knows that a man can marry even if he reaches the age of 102, is penniless, and has all his facilities gone. There is always some woman willing to take a chance on him.

I have been insane on the subject of money-making all my life.

Some of us are born with a sense of loss. It is not acquired as we grow. It is already there from the beginning, and it pervades us throughout our lives.

The fame you earn has a different taste from the fame that is forced upon you

Only a great fool or a great genius is likely to flout all social grace with impunity, and neither one, doing so, makes the most comfortable companion.

I am a journalist in the field of etiquette. I try to find out what the most genteel people regularly do, what traditions they have discarded, what compromises they have made.

The modern rule is that every woman should be her own chaperon.

It is not according to my mode of doing things, to bring a suit against a man that I have the power in my own hands to punish.

The public be damned.

Everything in life is elusive.

To be pregnant has been for me each time the supreme joy ... I was doing the greatest thing in the world without having to do anything -- all I had to do was be.

As Harvard University psychologist Daniel Gilbert argues, 'You can't adapt to commuting, because it's entirely unpredictable. Driving in traffic is a different kind of hell every day.'

I don't categorize myself as an 85-year-old woman who has written an erotic novel. I categorize myself as a writer who's written an erotic novel.

I love to think that animals and humans and plants and fishes and trees and stars and the moon are all connected.

When anybody says, 'Why me?' Why is 'me' exempt?

Breakfast is the one meal at which it is permissible to read the paper.

We must learn which ceremonies may be breached occasionally at our convenience and which ones may never be if we are to live pleasantly with our fellow man.

I was born during an eclipse. I believe very much in astrology. If you were born on an eclipse it indicates your destiny is chaotic.

I've resolved so many things in my life. I like the idea of showing that you can go through a lot and still be on your feet, still be working, and still be positive about life.

And it came to me, and I knew what I had to have before my soul would rest. I wanted to belong - to belong to my mother. And in return - I wanted my mother to belong to me.

The minute that you bring a unicorn into a story, you know that it's a fairy tale or a fable, because unicorns don't exist as animals. They exist as fantasy creatures.

The public be damned! (on whether the public should be consulted about luxury trains Aug 1918