J. P. Morgan Quotations

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

No sir. The first thing is character.

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

A man generally has two reasons for doing a thing.

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

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.

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.

I'm not in Wall Street for my health.

Gold is money and nothing else.

Gold is Money. That's it

Millionaires don't have astrologers, billionaires do.

You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

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

Let every lion do his duty.

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

Money is gold, and nothing else

The key to living a moral life is this: Do nothing in private that you would be ashamed to discuss openly with your mother.

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

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

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

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

I made a fortune getting out too soon.

You can't unscramble eggs.

The wise man bridges the gap by laying out the path by means of which he can get from where he is to where he wants to go.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Gold is money. Everything else is credit.

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.