"Gold is Money" - J P Morgan - In 1912

On December 18 & 19th 1912

JP Morgan Testified before  congress : http://memory.loc.gov/service/gdc/scd0001/2006/20060517001te/20060517001te.pdf

this is a great read loud and clear from the man himself 60 pages of "PURE GOLD"

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morgan Epigrams

I have absolute faith in the patriotism and public spirit of the Stock Exchange. The moral responsibility has to be defended as long as you live. Securities do not always prove good. It is difficult to get stockholders to take active interest in their companies. I do not believe I could carry any question through any board against the views of the other directors. I like a little competition, but I should rather have co-operation. Without actual control, you can do nothing. I want to control nothing. There is nothing in the world by which you can make a money trust. I do not feel that I nave vast power. I do not think I have power in any department of industry; I am not seeking it, either. All the money and all the banks in Christendom cannot control credit. My firm is not run by me; I am not the final authority. I believe in divided as against concentrated responsibility.
I do not compete for deposits. I do not care whether they ever come, but they do come. A bank, if it transacts its business right, will get its share of the business. Nobody wants to put money into a new railroad in these times. I always assist young men. If it is good business for the interests of the country, I do it.

If I should attempt to tell where the money is in every transac- tion I make, I shou!d have a hard time of it.

I did it because I thought it was the thing to do.

I should not allow a man to be associated with me that I thought was a fraud, simply because he owned a bank which at that moment was solvent.

Money is gold, and nothing else.

If a man had the credit, and I had the money, his customer would be badly off.

I have given a man a check for a million when I knew he had not a cent in the world.

The first thing is character, before money or property or any- thing else.

A man I do not trust could not get money from me on all the bonds in Christendom.

I never heard of a bank being controlled by anybody who gave it business.

The first thing is to get the business, and the next thing is the way you transact your business.

 

I think manipulation is always bad.

I never sold short in my life that I know of, but I do not see how you will get along without it. It is a principle of life, I think.

.. I would not favor legislation that would reduce the volume of speculation. You cannot prevent the public buying a thing that they think is low, or selling a thing that they think is high

You cannot in a bank in which you are a director, not in any first-class bank, at any rate, go and find out how much I have got in that bank. "

J You can get combinations that can control business, but you cannot control money.