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Henry Clay Frick Quotes

10 quotes from Henry Clay Frick — Industrialist known as the 'Coke King' who partnered with Carnegie in steel..

We bought the son of a bitch, but he didn't stay bought.

Business

I do not think I will die, but whether I do or not, the company will pursue the same policies.

Leadership

What is going to rule our great commonwealth, the mob or the law?

Government

He has great energy and his judgment about matters pertaining to his business is most remarkable.

Judge Thomas Mellon, on the young Frick

Take supreme care of that head of yours. It is wanted. Again, expressing my thankfulness that I have found THE MAN.

Andrew Carnegie, letter to Frick, 1889

Buying a work of art that he would approach as in buying a railroad company. He would analyze it, he would think about it. But in the end it has to be the combination of passion with the knowledge and the research that buttresses that.

Ian Wardropper, Director of the Frick Collection, on Frick's method

Tell him I'll see him in hell, where we're both going.

Henry Clay Frick, to Carnegie's secretary James Bridge, 1919

You are being outgeneralled all along the line, and your management of the Company has already become the subject of jest. Frick.

Henry Clay Frick, telegram to Carnegie, c. 1900

Why was he not manly enough to say to my face what he said behind my back? I have stood a great many insults from Mr. Carnegie in the past, but I will submit to no further insults in the future.

Henry Clay Frick, at a Carnegie Steel board meeting

The mills have never been able to turn out the product they should, owing to being held back by the Amalgamated men.

Henry Clay Frick, letter to Andrew Carnegie on the Amalgamated Association

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