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Just because we're stupid doesn't mean everybody else was.

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Jamie Dimon
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: March 13
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New York City
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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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Dodd-Frank and independent actions of banks go a long way in terms of progress on capital, liquidity, transparency, living wills (plans for winding down a bank in the event of a collapse) and resolutions.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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We invested in the downturn and we never stopped serving our clients.
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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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You have your own culture and your own ways of doing things. I hope Japan continues on this path.
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Prime Minister Modi [Narendra] is strong enough, and he's accomplished much.
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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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If the government wants to do social policy, it should not be done in a quasi-public company. If you have a mortgage guarantee company which is done by the U.S. government, it should be guaranteed by the originators, i.e., the shareholder.
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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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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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We're going to do the right thing for the company and our customers, all things considered.
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I am not embarrassed to be a banker. I am not embarrassed to be in business.
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Part of the reason some Japanese companies have underperformed financially was corporate governance and board structures.
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I don't think that [normalization] necessarily is going to damage the emerging economies.
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