J.P. Morgan

You can't be a first-class man with a third-class mind.

I would rather have a man's character than all the collateral in the world.

I would rather have a man's character than all the collateral in the world.

The best way to make money is to stop losing it.

The best way to make money is to stop losing it.

Millionaires don't use Astrology, billionaires do.

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

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.

Gold is money. Everything else is credit.

Anybody has a right to evade taxes if he can get away with it.

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.

My first guess is sometimes right. My second never is.

Of all forms of tyranny the least attractive and the most vulgar is the tyranny of mere wealth, the tyranny of plutocracy.

You can't unscramble eggs.

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

Don't talk to me about appealing to the public.

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

The first thing (in credit) is character… before money or anything else. Money cannot buy it.

If you want time to pass quickly, just give a banker your note for 90 days.

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