Dave Peters

Very interesting article, I found this excerpt especially badass:

Vanderbilt was ruthless in business. He once wrote a short (and now famous) letter to Charles Morgan and C.K. Garrison of the Morgan & Garrison company. The two men manipulated his steamship company’s stock in his absence and took it over. The letter read “Gentlemen: you have undertaken to cheat me. I won’t sue you, for the law is too slow. I’ll ruin you. Yours truly, Cornelius Vanderbilt.” True to his words, two years later Vanderbilt forced them out of business by running a competing business.”