Best J. P. Morgan Quotes On Life And Success

 

John Pierpont Morgan Sr. was an American financier and banker who dominated corporate finance and industrial consolidation in the United States of America in the late nineteenth and mid-twentieth hundreds of years.

Here are some of the Best J. P. Morgan Quotes

“Anyone can be a millionaire, but to become a billionaire you need an astrologer.” ~ J. P. Morgan

“Go as far as you can see; when you get there you’ll be able to see farther.” ~ J. P. Morgan

 

 

“You have no right to own a yacht if you ask that question.” ~ J. P. Morgan

“When you expect things to happen – strangely enough – they do happen.” ~ J. P. Morgan

“Money equals business which equals power, all of which come from character and trust.” ~ J. P. Morgan

 

 

“Let every lion do his duty.” ~ J. P. Morgan

“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.” ~ J. P. Morgan

“A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.” ~ J. P. Morgan

 

 

“You can’t pick cherries with your back to the tree.” ~ J. P. Morgan

“I made a fortune getting out too soon.” ~ J. P. Morgan

“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 headline and listens to the demagogues and that’s the stuff public opinion is made of.” ~ J. P. Morgan

 

 

“Millionaires don’t use astrology…the billionaires do.” ~ J. P. Morgan

“Decide that you are not going to stay where you are.” ~ J. P. Morgan

“Gold is money. Everything else is credit.” ~ J. P. Morgan

 

 

“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.” ~ J. P. Morgan

 

 

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“Giving debt relief to people that really need it, that’s what foreclosure is.” ~ J. P. Morgan

“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 expand their energies in fighting over questions of no importance to us except as teachers of the common herd.” ~ J. P. Morgan

 

 

“If that’s all he can get, and he takes it, I should say it’s enough.” ~ J. P. Morgan

“Any man who is a bear on the future of this country will go broke.” ~ J. P. Morgan

“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.” ~ J. P. Morgan

 

 

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

“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.” ~ J. P. Morgan

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

 

 

“If you have to ask how much it costs, you can’t afford it.” ~ J. P. Morgan

“You are affluent when you buy what you want, do what you wish and don’t give a thought to what it costs.” ~ J. P. Morgan

“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” ~ J. P. Morgan

 

 

“No, sir. The first thing is character.” ~ J. P. Morgan

“I’ll do business with anyone, but I’ll only go sailing with gentlemen.” ~ J. P. Morgan

“Anyone who has to ask about the annual upkeep of a yacht can’t afford one.” ~ J. P. Morgan

 

“I’m not in Wall Street for my health.” ~ J. P. Morgan

 

 

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