They've been longer at the game.

I don't know as much about these things as they do." Cowperwood smiled in his soul, though his face remained passive.
"Don't worry about them, George," he continued genially and confidentially.

"You and I together can know and do as much as they ever could and more.

I'm telling you.

Take this railroad deal you're in on now, George; you and I could manipulate that just as well and better than it can be done with Wycroft, Strobik, and Harmon in on it.