J. P. Morgan Quotes

#1. Let every lion do his duty.

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#2. I made a fortune getting out too soon.

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#3. 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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#4. No sir. The first thing is character.

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#5. 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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#6. 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.

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#7. Anyone who has to ask about the annual upkeep of a yacht can't afford one.

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#8. 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.

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#9. Giving debt relief to people that really need it, that's what foreclosure is.

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#10. If you have to ask how much it costs, you can't afford it.

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#11. Gold is money and nothing else.

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#12. 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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#13. When you expect things to happen - strangely enough - they do happen.

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#14. 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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#15. Money is gold, and nothing else

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#16. A man always has two reasons for what he does--a good one, and the real one.

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#17. Any man who is a bear on the future of this country will go broke.

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#18. Anyone can be a millionaire, but to become a billionaire you need an astrologer.

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#19. Gold is money. Everything else is credit.

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#20. I'll do business with anyone, but I'll only go sailing with gentlemen.

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#21. You can't unscramble eggs.

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#22. The key to living a moral life is this: Do nothing in private that you would be ashamed to discuss openly with your mother.

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#23. Money equals business which equals power, all of which come from character and trust.

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#24. Millionaires don't have astrologers, billionaires do.

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#25. I'm not in Wall Street for my health.

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#26. A man generally has two reasons for doing a thing. One that sounds good, and a real one.

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#27. 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.

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#28. Millionaires don't use Astrology, billionaires do.

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#29. 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

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#30. If that's all he can get, and he takes it, I should say it's enough.

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#31. When asked what the stock market will do: It will fluctuate

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#32. Millionaires don't use astrology ... the billionaires do.

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#33. Gold is Money. That's it

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#34. 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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