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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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Part of the reason some Japanese companies have underperformed financially was corporate governance and board structures.
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We're going to do the right thing for the company and our customers, all things considered.
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The government has the right to change laws and rules and regulations.
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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 am still a Democrat. The main reason is because I don't like the Republican stance on some social values. Not that I disagree with all of them. I just don't think they have a right to impose it upon other people. I've been public about that.
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I don't think that [normalization] necessarily is going to damage the emerging economies.
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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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We got a lot of excellent people and businesses from Bear and WaMu. But Bear definitely was more painful. WaMu got us into Florida, California, and other states, which was a huge benefit - to expand and grow and add middle-market, private banking, investment banking, and other products, too.
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The third arrow (of structural reform) is critically important. Japan has some of the best companies in the world, and if you look at their technology, their capability, it's extraordinary.
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India is a huge democracy. Prime Minister [Narendra] Modi has ambitions to try to fix the infrastructure, the rules, taxes, education, and to lift up the Indian people. And we're hopeful that that's going to create positive momentum.
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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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