Best 28 quotes of J. P. Morgan on MyQuotes

A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Decide that you are not going to stay where you are.

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 headlines and listens to the demagogues and that's the stuff public opinion is made of.

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

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

Gold is money. Everything else is credit.

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.

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

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

Let every lion do his duty.

Millionaires don't have astrologers, billionaires do.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

You are affluent when you buy what you want, do what you wish and don't give a thought to what it costs.

You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

You can't unscramble eggs.

You have no right to own a yacht if you ask that question.

Millionaires don't use Astrology, billionaires do.