During the 1830s, he built shipping routes in New York offering top service. Vanderbilt rules out his competitors and finally they paid him to take his business to better them. He moved his operations to the Hudson River, competing against the Hudson River Steamboat Association. He name, “People’s Line”, that offering cheap fares to all. The Association bought him out for $100,000 and payments of $5,000. This business made Vanderbilt a self-made millionaire. Cornelius Vanderbilt once said, “I don't care half so much about making money as I do about making my point, and coming out