J. P. Morgan Quotes
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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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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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Gold is money. Everything else is credit.
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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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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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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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A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.
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Millionaires don't use astrology...the billionaires do.
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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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Let every lion do his duty.
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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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You can't unscramble eggs.
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Anyone can be a millionaire, but to become a billionaire you need an astrologer.
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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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Anyone who has to ask about the annual upkeep of a yacht can't afford one.
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Giving debt relief to people that really need it, that's what foreclosure is.
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You have no right to own a yacht if you ask that question.
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It will fluctuate.
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No sir. The first thing is character.
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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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I owe the public nothing.
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I'm not in Wall Street for my health.
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When asked what the stock market will do: It will fluctuate.