J. P. Morgan famous quotes

03-30-2025

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

#Inspirational #Change #Moving On
When you expect things to happen - strangely enough - they do happen.
-- J. P. Morgan

#Law Of Attraction #Anticipation #Enough
Giving debt relief to people that really need it, that's what foreclosure is.
-- J. P. Morgan

#People #Giving #Relief
You can't unscramble eggs.
-- J. P. Morgan

#Educational #Eggs
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

#Business #Want #Lawyer
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.
-- J. P. Morgan

#Teacher #Home #Fighting
Anyone can be a millionaire, but to become a billionaire you need an astrologer.
-- J. P. Morgan

#Astrology #Needs #Millionaire
I made a fortune getting out too soon.
-- J. P. Morgan

#Success #Business #Made
Millionaires don't use astrology...the billionaires do.
-- J. P. Morgan

#Astrology #Use #Millionaire
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

#Mistake #Science #Simple
A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.
-- J. P. Morgan

#Motivational #Inspiring #Leadership
Money equals business which equals power, all of which come from character and trust.
-- J. P. Morgan

#Character
If you have to ask how much it costs, you can't afford it.
-- J. P. Morgan

#Life #Success #Business
Gold is money. Everything else is credit.
-- J. P. Morgan

#Gold #Credit
Anyone who has to ask about the annual upkeep of a yacht can't afford one.
-- J. P. Morgan

#Upkeep #Annuals #Yacht
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.
-- J. P. Morgan

#Men #Pay #Fool
If that's all he can get, and he takes it, I should say it's enough.
-- J. P. Morgan

#Money #Enough #Should
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

#Money #Giving #Wish
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

#Government #Citizens #Maintaining
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

#Wise #Mean #Men
Millionaires don't have astrologers, billionaires do.
-- J. P. Morgan

#Astrology #Millionaire #Billionaire
You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.
-- J. P. Morgan

#Focus #Tree #Cherries
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.
-- J. P. Morgan

#Life #Connections #Remember
A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason. Let us be like the man of the frontier and always reveal with utmost honesty our real reasons for all that we do.
-- J. P. Morgan

#Honesty #Real #Men
No sir. The first thing is character.
-- J. P. Morgan

#Character #Firsts
Gold is money and nothing else.
-- J. P. Morgan

#Gold
Any man who is a bear on the future of this country will go broke.
-- J. P. Morgan

#Country #Men #Bears
Decide that you are not going to stay where you are.
-- J. P. Morgan

#New Year #Happy New Year #Where You Are
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

#Men #Get Money #Christendom
When asked what the stock market will do: It will fluctuate
-- J. P. Morgan

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