William Cornelius Van Horne Quotes

Canada, Politician
February 3, 1843 – September, 11, 1915.

Sir William Cornelius Van Horne, KCMG succeeded Lord Mount Stephen as president of the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1888. He was a prominent member of the Whitney syndicate that created the Cuba Railroad Company, incorporated at Trenton, New Jersey, in 1900 with a capitalization of $8,000,000. He lived at the Van Horne Mansion in Montreal's Golden Square Mile.

If we can't export the scenery, we'll import the tourists.

William Cornelius Van Horne
- Scenery
- Tourists
Cheerfulness is the daughter of employment; and I have known a man come home in high spirits from a funeral, merely because he has had the management of it.

William Cornelius Van Horne

There are more speculators about New Westminster and Victoria than there were in Winnipeg during the boom and they are a much sharper lot. Nearly every person is more or less interested and you will have to be on your guard against all of them.

William Cornelius Van Horne
Prosperity too often has the same effect on a Christian that a calm at sea has on a Dutch mariner; who frequently, it is said, in those circumstances, ties up the rudder, gets drunk, and goes to sleep.

William Cornelius Van Horne