Henry Flagler

“I have the money; it is the men I need.”

“To see Florida, you must have a hotel.”

“The first lesson of business is to be able to close a deal.”

“I have always been a builder. I have built a great business, and I have built a great railroad. Now I am building a great city.”

“Never invest in a business you can't run yourself.”

“Help me, O God, to be a true man. To be a man who will not be a scrap of paper blown about by every wind, but a man of purpose, a man of fibre, a man of backbone, a man who will not have a price, and who will not be sold.”

“I would rather be my own tyrant than have someone else tyrannize me.”

“I've got a hunch, and I'm playing it.”