Quotes from 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.

Gold is money. Everything else is credit.

Money is gold, and nothing else

Gold is Money. That's it

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

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

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

I'm not in Wall Street for my health.

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

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.

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.

I made a fortune getting out too soon.

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.

If you have to ask how much it costs, you can't afford it.

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

Money equals business which equals power, all of which come from character and trust.

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.

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

Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell me how to do what I want to do.

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

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.

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

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

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.