The Personal Quotes section below lists two versions of the quotation "A man has two reasons for what he does...". The actual quote attributed to J.P. Morgan first appeared in author
Owen Wister's memoir, "Roosevelt: The Story of a Friendship". Wister's book about his friendship with
Theodore Roosevelt was published in 1930, 27 years after Morgan's death. According to Wister, Morgan once said, ""A man always has two reasons for what he does - a good one, and the real one". Previous versions of this quote are discussed in an article on QuoteInvestigator.com (see Miscellaneous Links).