James J. Hill quotes:

If you review the commercial history, you will discover anyone who controls oriental trade will get hold of global wealth.

Most men who have really lived have had, in some share, their great adventure. This railway is mine.

Give me snuff, whiskey, and Swedes, and I will build a railroad to hell.

The wealth of the country, its capital, its credit, must be saved from the predatory poor as well as the predatory rich, but above all from the predatory politician.

If you want to know whether you are destined to be a success or a failure in life, you can easily find out. The test is simple and it is infallible: Are you able to save money? If not, drop out. You will lose. You may think not, but you will lose as sure as you live. The seed of success is not in you.

Work, hard work, intelligent work, and then more work.

The passenger train is like the male teat - neither useful nor ornamental.