Top 38 Quotes & Sayings by J. P. Morgan

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American businessman J. P. Morgan.

Last updated on September 17, 2024.

John Pierpont Morgan Sr. was an American financier and investment banker who dominated corporate finance on Wall Street throughout the Gilded Age. As the head of the banking firm that ultimately became known as J.P. Morgan and Co., he was the driving force behind the wave of industrial consolidation in the United States spanning the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

American - Businessman | April 17, 1837 - March 31, 1913

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No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

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Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you'll be able to see farther.

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A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.

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Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do.

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When you expect things to happen - strangely enough - they do happen.

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If you have to ask how much it costs, you can't afford it.

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A man generally has two reasons for doing a thing. One that sounds good, and a real one.

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Decide that you are not going to stay where you are.

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I do not remember in my whole life I ever willfully misrepresented anything to anybody at any time. I have never knowingly had connection with a fraudulent scheme.

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No sir. The first thing is character.

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Don't talk to me about appealing to the public. I am done with the public, for the present anyway. The public reads the headlines and that is all. The story itself is fair and shows the facts. That would be all right if the public read the facts. But it does not. It reads the headlines and listens to the demagogues and that's the stuff public opinion is made of.

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I'm not in Wall Street for my health.

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Anyone can be a millionaire, but to become a billionaire you need an astrologer.

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If that's all he can get, and he takes it, I should say it's enough.

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Gold is Money. That's it

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Gold is money and nothing else.

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I made a fortune getting out too soon.

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People without homes will not quarrel with their leaders. This is well known among our principle men now engaged in forming an imperialism of capitalism to govern the world. By dividing the people we can get them to expend their energies in fighting over questions of no importance to us except as teachers of the common herd.

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Millionaires don't have astrologers, billionaires do.

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You are affluent when you buy what you want, do what you wish and don't give a thought to what it costs.

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You can't unscramble eggs.

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When asked what the stock market will do: It will fluctuate.

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Let every lion do his duty.

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Money equals business which equals power, all of which come from character and trust.

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Before money or anything else. Money cannot buy it...Because a man I do not trust could not get money from me on all the bonds in Christendom.

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Gold is money. Everything else is credit.

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You have no right to own a yacht if you ask that question.

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Giving debt relief to people that really need it, that's what foreclosure is.

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Millionaires don't use astrology...the billionaires do.

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A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason. Let us be like the man of the frontier and always reveal with utmost honesty our real reasons for all that we do.

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Anybody has a right to evade taxes if he can get away with it. No citizen has a moral obligation to assist in maintaining his government

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Any man who is a bear on the future of this country will go broke.

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Money is gold, and nothing else

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I'll do business with anyone, but I'll only go sailing with gentlemen.

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Anyone who has to ask about the annual upkeep of a yacht can't afford one.

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Congress should know how to levy taxes, and if it doesn't know how to collect them, then a man is a fool to pay the taxes.