Business Quote by Thomas Sowell

“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

“But the railroads are a new force. No hatred is in their history. They heal the wounds of the past, and they reach toward…

— Pearl S. Buck

“Lack of harmony and cooperation between the railroad management and the workers has made it necessary for the railroads to increase their freight and…

— Napoleon Hill

“It was a masterpiece. Nobody bought it. (re: Rain, Steam and Speed - The Great Western Railway, 1844) ”

— Anthony Bailey

“The trains roared in on iron rails, bringing people from places he had never seen, taking them away to places he had only heard…

— Victoria Wilcox

“I don’t want to rail against modern railroad barons, because this is America, and I believe that I too will one day be wealthy.”

— Jarod Kintz

“The great difference between voyages rests not in ships, but in the people you meet on them.”

— Amelia Barr

“Yes," she said. "'I Been Working on the Railroad.'There's just two things I'm worried about with that: the grammar and the use of slave…

— Lorrie Moore

“But I was not so much interested in facts themselves as in the importance they had for my imagination. I was passionately interested in…

— L.P. Hartley

“and everything generally made shipshape, which seemed a desirable state of affairs, given that we were in fact aboard a ship.”

— Diana Gabaldon

“People nowadays seemed to resent the railroads for abandoning romantic steam power in favor of diesel. People didn't understand the first goddamned thing about…

— Jonathan Franzen

“We have all heard a great deal about the opportunities of bygone years. We envy the men who discovered and settled the West. We…

— F.C. Minaker