Top 30 J. P. Morgan Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Gold is money. Everything else is credit.”

— J. P. Morgan

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2. “I made a fortune getting out too soon.”

— J. P. Morgan

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3. “Anyone can be a millionaire, but to become a billionaire you need an astrologer.”

— J. P. Morgan

4. “Millionaires don’t have astrologers, billionaires do.”

— J. P. Morgan

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

— J. P. Morgan

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

— J. P. Morgan

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

— J. P. Morgan

8. “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.”

— J. P. Morgan

9. “If you have to ask how much it costs, you can’t afford it.”

— J. P. Morgan

10. “When asked what the stock market will do: It will fluctuate.”

— J. P. Morgan

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

— J. P. Morgan

12. “Money is gold, and nothing else.”

— J. P. Morgan

13. “You can’t pick cherries with your back to the tree.”

— J. P. Morgan

14. “Decide that you are not going to stay where you are.”

— J. P. Morgan

15. “You can’t unscramble eggs.”

— J. P. Morgan

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

— J. P. Morgan

17. “No sir. The first thing is character.”

— J. P. Morgan

18. “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.”

— J. P. Morgan

19. “Let every lion do his duty.”

— J. P. Morgan

20. “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.”

— J. P. Morgan

21. “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.”

— J. P. Morgan

22. “I’ll do business with anyone, but I’ll only go sailing with gentlemen.”

— J. P. Morgan

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

— J. P. Morgan

24. “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.”

— J. P. Morgan

25. “I’m not in Wall Street for my health.”

— J. P. Morgan

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

— J. P. Morgan

27. “Anyone who has to ask about the annual upkeep of a yacht can’t afford one.”

— J. P. Morgan

28. “Gold is Money. That’s it.”

— J. P. Morgan

29. “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.”

— J. P. Morgan

30. “Giving debt relief to people that really need it, that’s what foreclosure is.”

— J. P. Morgan

31. “If that’s all he can get, and he takes it, I should say it’s enough.”

— J. P. Morgan

32. “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.”

— J. P. Morgan