No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.
J. P. MorganYou are affluent when you buy what you want, do what you wish and don't give a thought to what it costs.
J. P. MorganDon't talk to me about appealing to the public. I am done with the public, for the present anyway. The public reads the headlines and that is all. The story itself is fair and shows the facts. That would be all right if the public read the facts. But it does not. It reads the headlines and listens to the demagogues and that's the stuff public opinion is made of.
J. P. MorganThe 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. MorganCongress 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. MorganBefore 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. MorganPeople without homes will not quarrel with their leaders. This is well known among our principle men now engaged in forming an imperialism of capitalism to govern the world. By dividing the people we can get them to expend their energies in fighting over questions of no importance to us except as teachers of the common herd.
J. P. MorganWell, 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. MorganA man generally has two reasons for doing a thing. One that sounds good, and a real one.
J. P. MorganThe 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. MorganAnybody has a right to evade taxes if he can get away with it. No citizen has a moral obligation to assist in maintaining his government
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