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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
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New York City
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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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You cannot prove this in real time, but when economists 20 years from now write a book on the recovery, it may well be entitled, It could have been much better.
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I'm a really big believer - this is not a statement about President [Barack] Obama, but whoever is president - that good policy is really important.
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Manipulating currencies is when you're going into the marketplace and buying something in large amounts to depress the value of the currency.
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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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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 also believe that most of the emerging economies have a fairly large amount of foreign exchange reserves, relative to 10 years ago.
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You have your own culture and your own ways of doing things. I hope Japan continues on this path.
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Companies are returning a lot of money to shareholders through dividends and buybacks. And a lot of people say that's not a good use of capital. I think that's normal reallocation of capital.
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I think normalization is a good thing.
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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 transaction reflects our disciplined strategy of investing capital in core businesses where we can leverage scale and expertise for competitive advantage. In addition to being a great strategic fit, the deal is compelling financially.
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You read constantly that banks are lobbying regulators and elected officials as if this is inappropriate. We don't look at it that way.
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I am not embarrassed to be a banker. I am not embarrassed to be in business.
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JP Morgan always has higher capital liquidity, that is partially to make up for mistakes and problems and obviously its a tough economy. We support an oversight committee, we supported some of the compensation, new compensation rules, though we already follow most of them. We support a lot of it.
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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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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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Dodd-Frank is 2,000 pages long. It covers thousands of rules, regulations, interpretations and things like that.
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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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We do all that [ represent companies], because we have a lot of research in Japanese companies, and that research educates investors around the world. It allows us to sell stocks and bonds in Japanese companies.
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