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I am not embarrassed to be a banker. I am not embarrassed to be in business.
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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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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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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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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Companies that build scale for the benefit of their customers and shareholders more often succeed over time.
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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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If I ran the whole place like it was my way or the highway, we would not be as good a company. I'm going to have mistakes - they'll be made on my watch and will embarrass me. But I'll also make sure the company learns from them so it can become a better company.
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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 don't like the term universal bank. The Chinese government legitimately wants to have a very strong economy. When they talk about SOE reform, they know that's part of it.
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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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Japan, Europe, [and] America probably [are] better than last year [2015], not China.
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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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I think the free-enterprise system has been great for society. That doesn't mean it's completely perfect. And also, when people say capitalism, I'm not really sure what they mean.
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And if you're going to be a leader, you know what I ask myself? Would I want to work for you in this job? Would I let my children work for you? Would I give you this job if I wasn't there to provide oversight? If you went to run another company, would I, as an investor, invest in that company?
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I don't think that [normalization] necessarily is going to damage the emerging economies.
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I think what you've seen them do recently in the markets is what most of us learn doesn't ultimately work. But I think everyone has to figure that on their own.
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Prime Minister Modi [Narendra] is strong enough, and he's accomplished much.
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It's offensive to me to be called a cost cutter.
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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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People always say to me, What if it doesn't work? If it doesn't work, we redouble our effort. We're not going to cry like a bunch of babies. We're going to redouble our effort.
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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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