J. P. Morgan Quotes

Nothing is impossible for those who act after wise counsel and careful thought.

There are dreamers and there are planners; the planners make their dreams come true.

A goal without a plan is just a wish.

It is the very essence of intelligence to coordinate means with a view to a remote end, and to undertake what it does not feel absolutely sure of carrying out.

It is one thing to see the forward path and another to be able to take it. But it is better to have an ambitious plan than none at all.

Only when you have got a clear statement of what you want to achieve, do you ask yourself how you are going to achieve it. In the military we are taught never to go for a single answer, no matter how obvious that might be.

The game of chess is a metaphor for life... it teaches you strategy and it teaches you the value of knowing where you are, where you want to get to and what obstacles are in the way that you need to navigate in order to get there.

My teacher says that everything that you want in the world is one step away, you just have to figure out which direction to step in.

In idle wishes, fools supinely stay. Be there a will and wisdom finds a way.

It is only by prudence, wisdom, and dexterity that great ends are attained and obstacles overcome. Without these qualities nothing succeeds.

It is only with prudence, sagacity, and much dexterity that great aims are accomplished, and all obstacles surmounted. Otherwise nothing is accomplished.

I always tried to align myself with strategic partners, friends, and information to help me with the things that I did not know, and ultimately, I made it.

We've plotted through the years of how to get to here, where we are now, or we would have never made it.

I'm fascinated with films that deal with strategy because there's a right way and a wrong way to get the job done.

A manager is a guide. He takes a group of people and says, 'With you I can make us a success; I can show you the way.'

Good plans shape good decisions. That's why good planning helps to make elusive dreams come true.

Work all by counsel and you shall not rue.

If you want to accomplish something in the world, idealism is not enough--you need to choose a method that works to achieve the goal. In other words, you need to be pragmatic.

It is not enough that a President should be patriotic and high-minded in his intentions and wise in his purposes; he must also be efficient in carrying them out.

As a mayor, my instinct is to really think about how to get something done and not to make the promise unless you have some view of the pathway. You don't have to have it all figured out, but you have to have a pathway there.

Leadership is neither about you or me; it is about something that needs to be done. Leaders figure out how it can be made to happen and get ten or a million people to see that this is the way to do it.

I have to put my team in a good situation.

It's bad policy to speculate on what you'll do if a plan fails when you're trying to make a plan work.

When any great design thou dost intend, Think on the means, the manner, and the end.