J. P. Morgan

The first thing (in credit) is character… before money or anything else. Money cannot buy it.
A man I do not trust could not get money from me on all the bonds in Christendom. I think
that is the fundamental basis of business.
– J. P. Morgan

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

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

Anyone can be a millionaire, but to become a billionaire you need an astrologer.
– J. P. Morgan

The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where
you are.
– J. P. Morgan

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

It will fluctuate.
– J. P. Morgan, when asked what the stock market will do

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

Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you’ll be able to see farther.
– J. P. Morgan

No price is too great for a work of unquestioned beauty and known authenticity.
– J. P. Morgan

You can’t pick cherries with your back to the tree.
– J. P. Morgan

Nothing so undermines your financial judgement as the sight of your neighbor getting rich.
– J. P. Morgan

My first guess is sometimes right. My second never is.
– J. P. Morgan