Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American businesswoman Hetty Green.
Last updated on November 8, 2024.
Hetty Green, nicknamed the Witch of Wall Street, was an American businesswoman and financier known as "the richest woman in America" during the Gilded Age. She was named by the Guinness Book of World Records the "greatest miser". Despite her wealth, she was a renowned cheapskate, refusing to buy expensive clothes or pay for hot water, and wearing a single dress that was only replaced when it was worn out. She amassed a fortune as a financier at a time when nearly all major financiers were men. After her death, the New York Times wrote, "It was the fact that Mrs. Green was a woman that made her career the subject of endless curiosity, comment and astonishment."
... thething I am proudest of in my whole business life is that I do not take, that I never took in all my life, and never, never! will take, one single penny more than 6% on any loan or any contract.
I advise women to invest in real estate. It is the collateral to be preferred above all others, and the safest means of investing money.
All you have to do is buy cheap and sell dear, act with thrift and shrewdness, and be persistent.