Джон Пирпонт Морган

Quotes

• “I owe the public nothing.”
• “The first thing [in credit] is character … before money or anything else. Money cannot buy it.… A man I do not trust could not get money from me on all the bonds in Christendom. I think that is the fundamental basis of business.”
• “[Credit] is an evidence of banking, but it is not the money itself. Money is gold, and nothing else.”
• “If you have to ask the price, you can't afford it.”
• “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.”

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