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Any man who has to ask about the annual upkeep of a yacht can't afford one.
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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.
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When asked what the stock market will do: It will fluctuate
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I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell me how to do what I want to do.
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Never be on the bear side but on the bull side when the United States is in question.
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A man always has two reasons for what he does—a good one and the real one.
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Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
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Born:
April 17, 1837
Died:
March 31, 1913
(aged 75)
Bio:
John Pierpont "J.P." Morgan was an American financier and banker who dominated corporate finance and industrial consolidation during his time.
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