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Companies that build scale for the benefit of their customers and shareholders more often succeed over time.

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Jamie Dimon
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: March 13
Banker
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New York City
New York
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James Jamie Dimon
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Just because you have a good hand today doesn't mean it's good tomorrow. And some of the things we're doing may become very disadvantageous at some point.
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It's moderate growth, with some parts of the world better than people think, and better than last year [2015].
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I think the politics have gotten better in the United States, which makes it easier to pass legislation, budgets and treaties.
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We've accommodated the new rules and regulations. We've served our clients and had quite good returns.
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My operating assumption is we will always have very tough competition. And even with some European banks struggling right now, some of them can reemerge - and maybe even stronger.
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I do want the tax system to be efficient and be conducive to growth, which it is not.
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I believe it's a good thing that people say, Can we find a way to live together in peace? And they did, for the most part.
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Don't do anything stupd. And don't waste money. Let everybody else waste money and do stupid things then we'll buy them.
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It's great that people get together and collaborate, talk about the facts and the analysis, all in the interest of having a great financial system.
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Part of the reason some Japanese companies have underperformed financially was corporate governance and board structures.
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We, Americans, have the best country on the planet. We have schools, universities, food, water, energy, peaceful neighbors, low corruption, you name it, deepest and widest capital markets. That doesn't mean we shouldn't identify problems. We don't have a divine right to success.
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I have gotten disturbed at some of the Democrats' anti-business behavior, the sentiment, the attacks on work ethic and successful people. I think it's very counter-productive.
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We did not anticipate the political fallout from it. We definitely didn't need it and we paid it back the first day we were allowed to.
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Our plate is full. We have a lot to do building our company organically and that is our key focus.
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The question is how do you do it [more consumer protection] so that it actually works that way? And that takes analysis, and sometimes collaboration between government and business, to understand how that works.
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Unraveling the euro is a terrible thing. This is a 50-year endeavor to get this continent together and that's a wonderful endeavor.
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I haven't studied it deeply, but the American banks started the crisis with far more capital and what I would call good liquidity. The riskiest funding is unsecured wholesale funding. It's the most fickle. Not repo, which the government focused on, too. Unsecured. JPMorgan Chase had almost none of that - virtually zero.
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I wanted to start by saying that the eurozone - there are two reasons they formed the European Union. One is for political peace and rationalization. And I think that's a good thing for a continent that went through hundreds of years of wars.
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Economies of scale are a good thing. If we didn't have them, we'd still be living in tents and eating buffalo.
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I'm not going to name anybody, but I think there are about five to 10 global institutions that will emerge as our primary competitors across the board. They're adjusting to this new world, like we are.
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