Close relationship Quote by John Moody

“Railroads, in turn, were revolutionary in their social consequences. The concentrations of the world's populations along coasts and near rivers was reduced, as land…

— Thomas Sowell

Mountains and oceans do not furnish any impassable barrier to the extension of trade.

— Henry J. Heinz

There is no path to middle-class prosperity without tearing down barriers to American exports.

— William M. Daley

The railroad originally was as completely dissociated from steam propulsion as was the ship.

— John Moody

Obviously, if you look at the history of rail in the U.S., it took courageous entrepreneurs to have that vision of connecting the whole…

— Shervin Pishevar

Whether it's steamships disrupted by the railroads or railroads disrupted by the airlines, it's typically the large entrenched incumbents that are displaced by innovators.

— Peter Diamandis

The great Pacific Railway is commenced... Immigration will soon pour into these valleys. Ten millions of emigrants will settle in this golden land in…

— George Francis Train

The 24% unemployment reached at the depths of the Great Depression was no picnic.

— Barry Eichengreen

In fiction, too, after the death of Cooper the main tendency for nearly a generation was away from the conquest of new borders to…

— Carl Clinton Van Doren

There is no legislative change that can be made to make up for an economy that's not growing and not expanding.

— Martin O'Malley

A narrative that branded Africa as little more than an economic, political and social basket case was not likely to provide the investment needed…

— Mo Ibrahim

No other single innovation had so much impact on history.

— Rodney Stark