J.P. Morgan
Banking magnate
Sayings by J.P. Morgan
The man who is too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic who is too busy to take care of his tools.
The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes instead of with their minds.
I am not a money lender, I am a money maker.
There are two reasons why a man does anything. One is a good reason; the other is the real reason.
If you want to be successful, you have to be willing to do things that others aren't.
I pay no man to think for me.
The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.
I am not interested in what a man thinks, but what he does.
I always buy good things and hold them until they go up.
The world is not governed by the laws of logic, but by the laws of human nature.
I can hire half of the working men in America to kill the other half.
I don't think it's a good idea to borrow money to buy stocks.
I have a lot of money, but I don't have a lot of time.
The greatest mistake in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
I would rather have a man who is honest and capable than one who is merely capable.
The man who does not work for his living is an idler.
I don't propose to go to bed with a lot of people.
I have to do something with my money.
When you have to deal with a man, you have to deal with him as he is, not as you would like him to be.
I can buy out any man in America.