John Pierpont Morgan

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

— John Pierpont Morgan

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.

— John Pierpont Morgan

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

— John Pierpont Morgan

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

— John Pierpont Morgan

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.

— John Pierpont Morgan

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

— John Pierpont Morgan

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

— John Pierpont Morgan

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

— John Pierpont Morgan

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.

— John Pierpont Morgan

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

— John Pierpont Morgan