J. P. Morgan Quotes
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When you expect things to happen - strangely enough - they do happen.
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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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If you have to ask how much it costs, you can't afford it.
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Gold is money. Everything else is credit.
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Let every lion do his duty.
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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.
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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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No sir. The first thing is character.
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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.
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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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Anyone can be a millionaire, but to become a billionaire you need an astrologer.
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I made a fortune getting out too soon.
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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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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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It will fluctuate.
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The first thing in credit is character … before money or anything else. Money cannot buy it.… A man I do not trust could not get money from me on all the bonds in Christendom. I think that is the fundamental basis of business.
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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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When asked what the stock market will do: It will fluctuate.
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Money equals business which equals power, all of which come from character and trust.
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You have no right to own a yacht if you ask that question.
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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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Anyone who has to ask about the annual upkeep of a yacht can't afford one.