"Here is an industry, which supplies convenience and comforts to the day laborer which kings could not command half a century ago."

 

Samuel Insull was quite a man:  Personal secretary to Edison before becoming an energy magnate.  Then an international fugitive.

 

"Aim for the top. There is plenty of room there. There are so few at the top it is almost lonely there."

 

Most of the quotes for the episode came from They Made America by Harold Evans.  It's one of Thomas Sowell's favorite books, so you should probably buy it:  https://www.amazon.com/They-Made-America-Centuries-Innovators/dp/0316277665/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=harold+evans+they+made+americac&qid=1595317983&sr=8-1

 

A "Very Good" copy available now for $6.  Unbelievable deal for this tome.