J. P. MORGAN

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.

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

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.

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

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

We do not want financial convulsions.

If we have done anything wrong, send your man to my man and they can fix it up.

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

All the banks in Christendom could not control money.

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

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.

Don't sell America short.

I am ready to do business with any established government, but I cannot help to make a government to do business with.

Any man who is a bear on the future of this country will go broke. There may be times when things are dark and cloudy in America .... but remember that the growth of this vast country will take care of all.

Think a lot, say little, and write nothing.

The time is coming when all businesses will have to be done with glass pockets.

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

We have to buy our own President

I am not in Wall Street for my health.

Everyone has their price. You just have to find out what it is.

I made a fortune getting out too soon.

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

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

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