Leland Stanford
Leland Stanford
Amasa Leland Stanfordwas an American tycoon, industrialist, politician, and a co-founderof Stanford University. Migrating to California from New York at the time of the Gold Rush, he became a successful merchant and wholesaler, and continued to build his business empire. He served one two-year term as governor of California after his election in 1861, and later eight years as senator from the state. As president of Southern Pacific Railroad and, beginning in 1861, Central Pacific, he had tremendous power in...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth9 March 1824
CityWatervilet, NY
CountryUnited States of America
We deem it of the first importance that the education of both sexes shall be equally full and complete, varied only as nature dictates.
A co-operative association designed to furnish labor for farming operations is clearly within the realm of practical achievement.
The advantages of wealth are greatly exaggerated.
In the unrest of the masses I augur great good. It is by their realizing that their condition of life is not what it ought to be that vast improvements may be accomplished.
I have always been fully persuaded that, through co-operation, labor could become its own employer.