Let every lion do his duty. — J. P. Morgan

If you have to ask how much it costs, you can’t afford it. — J. P. Morgan

If that’s all he can get, and he takes it, I should say it’s enough. — J. P. Morgan

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

Before money or anything else. Money cannot buy it…Because a man I do not trust could not get money from me on all the bonds in Christendom. — J. P. Morgan

Millionaires don’t use astrology…the billionaires do. — J. P. Morgan

Anyone can be a millionaire, but to become a billionaire you need an astrologer. — J. P. Morgan

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

I’m not in Wall Street for my health. — J. P. Morgan

I’ll do business with anyone, but I’ll only go sailing with gentlemen. — J. P. Morgan

Money equals business which equals power, all of which come from character and trust. — J. P. Morgan

Giving debt relief to people that really need it, that’s what foreclosure is. — J. P. Morgan

Decide that you are not going to stay where you are. — J. P. Morgan

Anyone who has to ask about the annual upkeep of a yacht can’t afford one. — J. P. Morgan

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

When you expect things to happen–strangely enough–they do happen. — J. P. Morgan

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

You can’t pick cherries with your back to the tree. — J. P. Morgan

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

Gold is Money. That’s it — J. P. Morgan

Gold is money. Everything else is credit. — J. P. Morgan

You have no right to own a yacht if you ask that question. — J. P. Morgan

No sir. The first thing is character. — J. P. Morgan

Money is gold, and nothing else — J. P. Morgan

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

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

Any man who is a bear on the future of this country will go broke. — J. P. Morgan

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