WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Fri, 12 Jun 2026 20:03:36 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg Morgan, John Pierpont – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Morgan, John Pierpont -- (Attributed) https://wist.info/morgan-john-pierpont/2910/ https://wist.info/morgan-john-pierpont/2910/#respond Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/wp/?p=2910 A man always has two reasons for what he does — a good one, and the real one.


John Pierpont "J. P." Morgan (1837-1913) American banker and financier
(Attributed)

Quoted in Owen Wister, Roosevelt: The Story of a Friendship, p. 280 (1930). There's no record in Morgan's writings, and versions of the quote from others can be found in the early 1800s. See here for more details.

Sometimes given as "A man generally has two reasons for doing a thing: one that sounds good, and a real one." ]]> https://wist.info/morgan-john-pierpont/2910/feed/ 0 2910