Behinds Quote by Andrew Carnegie

It was the custom when men received nominations to come to me for contributions, and I made them and considered them good paying investments…

— Jay Gould

You look at any giant corporation, and I mean the biggies, and they all started with a guy with an idea, doing it well.

— Irv Robbins

I bought a railroad during this period of time.

— Bill Janklow

I was in an organization called Progressive Labor Party and International Committee Against Racism. And I was - I started out helping to organize…

— Boots Riley

My grandfather and dad worked at General American Transportation Corp. in Chicago, a company that made tank cars and freight cars. We had a…

— Bill Moseley

For 50 years my father worked for the railroad.

— Harold Evans

I had started at a small startup as a big-company guy. Now I was leaving a big company as a small-startup guy.

— Douglas Edwards

Before running for Congress, I was an innovator and entrepreneur who founded several high-tech businesses that created hundreds of jobs and schools that found…

— Jared Polis

I have taken on virtually every element of the big money establishment, whether it's the Koch brothers, and the big energy companies, whether it's…

— Bernie Sanders

I busted my butt all my life building companies.

— Wayne Huizenga

If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help... Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that…

— Barack Obama

I was an organizer in the Food, Agricultural and Tobacco Workers Union down in North Carolina.

— Al Lewis