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John Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) American financier, banker, and philanthropist

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The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.

– J. P. Morgan

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A man always has two reasons for doing anything -- a good reason and the real reason.

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A man always has two reasons for what he doesa good one, and the real one.

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Capital must protect itself in every way... Debts must be collected and loans and mortgages foreclosed as soon as possible. When through a process of law the common people have lost their homes, they will be more tractable and more easily governed by the strong arm of the law applied by the central power of leading financiers. People 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. Morgan

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Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you'll be able to see farther.

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If you have to ask how much it costs, you can't afford it.

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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.

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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.

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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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When you expect things to happen -- strangely enough -- they do happen.

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You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

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