John Moody Quotes

The rail service is important for my district.

I bought a railroad during this period of time.

The fact is that America relies on Amtrak to move people.

Let us complete the grand design of Columbus, by putting Europe and Asia into communication, and that to our advantage, through the heart of our country. Let us give to his ships, converted into cars, a continuous course, unknown to all former times. Let us make the iron road, and make it from sea to sea.

Competition doesn't work well in the transportation business.

Railways are my politics.

The Union Pacific Railroad is … a mendacious monopoly.

Railways, multiplied and spanning the continent, are essential domestic institutions -- more powerful and more permanent than law, or popular consent, or political constitutions... They thoroughly complete the grand system... which fraternizes us into one people.

There is no passenger railroad service anywhere in the world that is not subsidized.

Like Maharashtra, the people of Gujarat also do not want a bullet train.

Rail in Europe is incredibly important as far as a transportation medium.

A public, unified and integrated railway - hardly controversial.

RAILROAD, n. The chief of many mechanical devices enabling us to get away from where we are to where we are no better off. For this purpose the railroad is held in highest favor by the optimist, for it permits him to make the transit with great expedition.

Seaboard Air Line, which was thought by numerous innocents to provide a foothold in aviation, was another favorite, although, in fact, it was a railroad.

Business can be hard. But we need more of it.

Sirius and XM went on air in 2001. It's taken 14 years for that to be a real business. It took them combining to be a real business.

There's a misconception that Lyft is just a better version of the taxi. You know, I think that's just scratching the surface of what we're doing.

Producers do not seem to understand that they are cutting into each other's business. They complete their films at the same time and do not space their releases.

You have to begin to put the infrastructure in place to put in high-speed trains...It should be a national priority. If the French can do it, why cant we?

Lay my head on the railroad line. Train come along; pacify my mind.

The United States as we know it today is largely the result of mechanical inventions, and in particular of agricultural machinery and the railroad. One transformed millions of acres of uncultivated land into fertile farms, while the other furnished the transportation which carried the crops to distant markets.

You've always got to be smart enough to go 'Well they're going to have to bring some of their own in'. We don't want to be a monopoly where we get shoved out, it has to be symbiotic.

In a commodity business, it's very hard to be smarter than your dumbest competitor.

Competition should not be for a share of the market-but to expand the market.

Although it was constructed in 1536, the New York subway system boasts an annual maintenance budget of nearly $8, currently stolen, and it does a remarkable job of getting New Yorkers from Point A to an indeterminate location somewhere in the tunnel leading to point B.