J. P. Morgan Quotes
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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When you expect things to happen - strangely enough - they do happen.
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I'll do business with anyone, but I'll only go sailing with gentlemen.
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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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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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Let every lion do his duty.
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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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A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.
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No sir. The first thing is character.
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I made a fortune getting out too soon.
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Millionaires don't use astrology...the billionaires do.
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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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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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Anyone can be a millionaire, but to become a billionaire you need an astrologer.
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You can't unscramble eggs.
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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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When asked what the stock market will do: It will fluctuate.
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It will fluctuate.
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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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You have no right to own a yacht if you ask that question.
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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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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.