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JP Morgan
Title: JP Morgan
Category: Society & Culture / People
Details: Words: 1169 | Pages: 5.0 (approximately 235 words/page)
JP 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 …showed first 75 words of 1169 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1169 total…his art
collection. In other affairs, Morgan also gave much money to the Harvard
Medical School and hospitals (Boardman 131). J.P. Morgan was truly a
captain of industry because he followed Carnegie's proposition that it was
an obligation of the rich to share their wealth, but more importantly, he
realized that if he didn't help the various institutions the way he did the
markets and nation would have suffered greatly, causing panic among the
public.
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