Джон Морган цитаты
Джон Морган
Дата рождения: 17. Апрель 1837
Дата смерти: 31. Март 1913
Другие имена: Джон Пирпонт Морган
Джон Пирпонт Морган I — американский предприниматель, банкир и финансист.
Цитаты Джон Морган
„Иди вперед до самого горизонта. Дойдешь — откроется новый.“
Никогда не бойся дойти до горизонта. Только там перед тобой откроется новый.
„[Credit] is an evidence of banking, but it is not the money itself. Money is gold, and nothing else.“
Testimony to the Pujo Committee (1912)
„If you have to ask the price, you can't afford it.“
About purchasing a yacht; quoted in "Business Education World" (Gregg Publishing Company, 1961)
Attributed
„I owe the public nothing.“
Quoted in the New York World (11 May 1901) during the Northern Pacific Corner. See Morgan: American Financier by Jean Strouse
„It will fluctuate.“
Said of the stock market, as quoted in Jean Strouse, Morgan: American Financier (Random House, 1999), p. 11
„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.“
Testimony to the Pujo Committee (1912)
Untermyer: Is not commercial credit based primarily upon money or property?
Morgan: No, sir; the first thing is character.
Testimony to the Pujo Committee (1912)
