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

Jamie Dimon

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Jamie Dimon
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: March 13
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New York City
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I think if we had another set of policies for - not the crisis years, but after that, that we might be growing faster. But we didn't. And some of that was Republicans' [fault], by the way.
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JPMorgan was already, for the most part. Our businesses at JPMorgan share the same cash-management systems. The commercial bank, the private bank, the retail bank, they all use the branches. The cash-management system moves the money around the world - for global corporations, and for you, the consumer, too.
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I do believe that some of these regulations made the markets more volatile, and it remains to be seen how bad that can be.
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The yen is trading where it's trading because people are guessing about people's future interest rates, dollar and yen and about the future growth potential of the economies. And, if this policy works, then the yen will probably strengthen.
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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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Wall Street gives money to both [Democrats and Republicans] because they want to be on the good side of whoever becomes president .
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I advise other companies' CEOs, don't fall into the trap where you go, 'Where's the growth? Where's the growth?' Where's the growth?' They feel a tremendous pressure to grow. Well, sometimes you can't grow. Sometimes you don't want to grow. In certain businesses, growth means you either take on bad clients, excess risk, or too much leverage.
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I hate the word universal, because I don't know exactly what it means. The question is, does it work for the client? Travelers was a diversified, financial conglomerate that did very well. The businesses had nothing to do with each other.
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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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I am not embarrassed to be a banker. I am not embarrassed to be in business.
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On Wall Street, there is no Wall Street there are individuals.
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That's probably good, all things being equal, for emerging markets, not bad, even though it may not be great for all their currencies.
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We continued to build the business, even in the worst of times. We do business all over America.
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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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When the government gets involved in pricing, I don't think it's the right way to look at a business.
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We see very broad-based, moderate, growth. Most of the sectors are quite strong. I don't see any major potholes, and I believe [the economy] is strengthening.
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It can take a long time to get the rules in place that are conducive to growing, sometimes.
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I think normalization is a good thing.
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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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