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J. P. Morgan Quotes

1837–1913 United States

John Pierpont Morgan (April 17, 1837 – March 31, 1913) was an American financier, banker, philanthropist and art collector who dominated corporate finance and industrial consolidation during his time.

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Money is gold, and nothing else.

When asked what the stock market will do: It will fluctuate

I owe the public nothing.

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.

Testimony to the Pujo Committee (1912)

[Credit] is an evidence of banking, but it is not the money itself. Money is gold, and nothing else.

Testimony to the Pujo Committee (1912)

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

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If you have to ask the price, you can't afford it.

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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.

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