J. P. Morgan Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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

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

When asked what the stock market will do: It will fluctuate — J. P. Morgan

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

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

I'll do business with anyone, but I'll only go sailing with gentlemen. — J. P. Morgan

I made a fortune getting out too soon. — J. P. Morgan

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

Let every lion do his duty. — 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 expend their energies in fighting over questions of no importance to us except as teachers of the common herd. — 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

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

Millionaires don't use Astrology, billionaires do. — J. P. Morgan

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

Millionaires don't have astrologers, billionaires do. — J. P. Morgan

When you expect things to happen - strangely enough - they do happen. — J. P. Morgan

No sir. The first thing is character. — 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 connection with a fraudulent scheme. — J. P. Morgan

Gold is Money. That's it — J. P. Morgan

Gold is money. Everything else is credit. — J. P. Morgan

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

Gold is money and nothing else. — J. P. Morgan

Anyone can be a millionaire, but to become a billionaire you need an astrologer. — 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 headlines and listens to the demagogues and that's the stuff public opinion is made of. — J. P. Morgan

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

I'm not in Wall Street for my health. — J. P. Morgan

Money is gold, and nothing else — J. P. Morgan

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

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

You can't unscramble eggs. — J. P. Morgan