JP Morgan on Character
Samuel Untermeyer: "Is not commercial credit based primarily upon money or property (collateral)?"
Morgan: "No, sir; the first thing is character."
Untermeyer: "Before money or property (collateral)?"
Morgan: "Before money or anything else. Money cannot buy it.” From Morgan’s testimony before the House Committee on Banking and Currency in December 1912.
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