Outliers: Cornelius Vanderbilt—The First Tycoon [The Knowledge Project Ep. #222]

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

And that quote is the embodiement of the man we are going to talk about today: Cornelius Vanderbilt.