Top 41 Quotes About J P Morgan
#1. Recently I was reading somewhere or other an Italian curio-dealer who attempted to sell a 17th century crucifix to J.P. Morgan. Inside it was concealed a stiletto. What a perfect symbol of the Christian religion.
George Orwell
#2. If you go back to the time of J.P. Morgan, the world of high finance was completely wholesale. The prestigious investment banks on Wall Street appealed exclusively to large corporations, governments, and to extremely wealthy individuals.
Ron Chernow
#3. J.P. Morgan learned to fish in troubled waters.
H.W. Brands
#4. Today, we have our own concentrations of economic power. Instead of Standard Oil, U.S. Steel, the Union Pacific Railroad, and J. P. Morgan and Company, we have Amazon, Google, Apple, Facebook, and Microsoft.
George Packer
#5. Do you honestly think Lenin is any different from J.P. Morgan? That you, if you were given absolute power, would behave any differently? Do you know the primary difference between men and gods? ... Gods don't think they can become men.
Dennis Lehane
#6. Jamie Dimon and J.P. Morgan are contributing millions to the Remain campaign because they do very nicely, thank you, out of the E.U.
Michael Gove
#7. J. P. Morgan once said, If you want something too much, you will not succeed in getting it.
Douglas Preston
#8. Anyone can be a millionaire, but to become a billionaire you need an astrologer.
J. P. Morgan
#9. 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
#11. I'll do business with anyone, but I'll only go sailing with gentlemen.
J. P. Morgan
#13. 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
#14. Money equals business which equals power, all of which come from character and trust.
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#15. Millionaires don't have astrologers, billionaires do.
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#17. A man generally has two reasons for doing a thing. One that sounds good, and a real one.
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#18. 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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#19. Millionaires don't use Astrology, billionaires do.
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#20. 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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#21. If that's all he can get, and he takes it, I should say it's enough.
J. P. Morgan
#22. When asked what the stock market will do: It will fluctuate
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#23. Millionaires don't use astrology ... the billionaires do.
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#25. Giving debt relief to people that really need it, that's what foreclosure is.
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#28. 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
#30. 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
#31. 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
#32. Anyone who has to ask about the annual upkeep of a yacht can't afford one.
J. P. Morgan
#33. 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
#34. Any man who is a bear on the future of this country will go broke.
J. P. Morgan
#35. If you have to ask how much it costs, you can't afford it.
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#37. 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
#38. When you expect things to happen - strangely enough - they do happen.
J. P. Morgan
#39. 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
#41. A man always has two reasons for what he does--a good one, and the real one.
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