John Pierpont Morgan or simply known as J.P. Morgan was an American financier and banker who dominated corporate finance on Wall Street throughout the Gilded Age. As the head of the banking firm that ultimately became known as J.P. Morgan and Co., he was the driving force behind the wave of industrial consolidation in the United States spanning the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Here are some best and famous J. P. Morgan Quotes for motivation.
“Go as far as you can see; when you get there you’ll be able to see farther.”
“When you expect things to happen – strangely enough – they do happen.”
“Giving debt relief to people that really need it, that’s what foreclosure is.”
“You can’t unscramble eggs.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Anyone can be a millionaire, but to become a billionaire you need an astrologer.”
“I made a fortune getting out too soon.”
Inspiring quotes from J.P Morgan
“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.”
“A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.”
“Money equals business which equals power, all of which come from character and trust.”
“If you have to ask how much it costs, you can’t afford it.”
Best quotes of J.P Morgan
“Gold is money. Everything else is credit.”
“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.”
“If that’s all he can get, and he takes it, I should say it’s enough.”
“You are affluent when you buy what you want, do what you wish and don’t give a thought to what it costs.”
“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”
“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.”
“Millionaires don’t have astrologers, billionaires do.”
“You can’t pick cherries with your back to the tree.”
Famous quotes from 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.”
“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.”
“No sir. The first thing is character.”
“Gold is money and nothing else.”
“Any man who is a bear on the future of this country will go broke.”
“Decide that you are not going to stay where you are.”
“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.”
“When asked what the stock market will do: It will fluctuate”
Of all forms of tyranny, the least attractive and the most vulgar is the tyranny of mere wealth, the tyranny of plutocracy.
We hope these J.P morgan quotes will inspire the best in you to be a visionary.