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Essay Archive - J.P. Morgan
J.P. Morgan
“No, sir, the first thing is character. Before money or anything
else. Money cannot buy it… Because a man I do not trust could not get money
from me on all the bonds in Christendom” (Sinclair XIII). With that line,
John Pierpont Morgan ended his career in a show-stealing manner. Indeed,
J.P. Morgan was a man of character; moreover, he was perhaps the greatest
Wall Street banker of the decade. Unlike others who gained fame at a young
age, Morgan lived in obscurity until 1895, where at the age of 58, he
signed a contract to supply gold to the United States Treasury propelling
him into the headlines (Wheeler 3). The mid to late 1....
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