Hetty Quotes

“I always try to deal justly with everyone,” she once said. “But if anyone wants to fight me I’ll give him all the fight he wants.”
― Charles Slack, Hetty: The Genius and Madness of America's First Female Tycoon

“But the most secure fortunes have always belonged to those with the discipline and foresight to stay out of the fray, those who supply speculators with the tools of their glory or ruin.”
― Charles Slack, Hetty: The Genius and Madness of America's First Female Tycoon

“According to the authors, Hetty’s $100 million represented 1/498th of the GNP at the time of her death in 1916. Hetty, the only woman on the list, came in thirty-sixth, five places behind Microsoft founder Bill Gates, and three places ahead of current billionaire-investor Warren Buffett. John D. Rockefeller, whose $1.4 billion in 1937 represented 1/65th of the GNP, was ranked as the wealthiest American of all time.”
― Charles Slack, Hetty: The Genius and Madness of America's First Female Tycoon