J. P. Morgan Quotes

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• Gold is money. Everything else is credit.

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  Gold, Credit

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

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

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  Motivational, Inspiring, Leadership

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

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  Teacher, Home, Fighting

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

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  Character

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• 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

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  Government, Citizens, Maintaining

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• Decide that you are not going to stay where you are.

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  New Year, First Steps, Where You Are

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• 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.

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  Done, Stuff, Facts

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

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  Mother, Keys, Would Be

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• Anyone can be a millionaire, but to become a billionaire you need an astrologer.

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  Astrology, Needs, Millionaire

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

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  Law Of Attraction, Anticipation, Enough

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

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  Mistake, Science, Simple

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

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  Success, Wise, Mean

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• I made a fortune getting out too soon.

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  Success, Business, Made

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• You can't unscramble eggs.

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  Educational, Eggs

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• I'll do business with anyone, but I'll only go sailing with gentlemen.

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  Sailing, Gentleman

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

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  Money, Giving, Wish

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• Giving debt relief to people that really need it, that's what foreclosure is.

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  People, Giving, Relief

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

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  Life, Success, Business

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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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  Business, Want, Lawyer

  Quoted in Ida M. Tarbell, The Life of Elbert H. Gary (1925)

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

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  Country, Men, Investing

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• Anyone who has to ask about the annual upkeep of a yacht can't afford one.

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  Upkeep, Annuals, Yacht

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

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  "The Intelligent Investor". Book by Benjamin Graham, Collins Business, p. 54, 2003.

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• 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.

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  Honesty, Real, Men

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• No sir. The first thing is character.

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  Character, Firsts

  Testimony to the Pujo Committee, 1912.

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