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It's offensive to me to be called a cost cutter.

Jamie Dimon

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Jamie Dimon
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: March 13
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New York City
New York
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I completely agree with the concept that American citizens shouldn't expect that a failure of a bank would cost them money, or that it would hurt the economy.
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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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Finance went from being a small business, effectively, to being a big business. In part, that's the growth of the world's wealth. That's called savings.
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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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I am not embarrassed to be a banker. I am not embarrassed to be in business.
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I am struck that so many of our leaders in the U.S. forget how strong our country can be.
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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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We've accommodated the new rules and regulations. We've served our clients and had quite good returns.
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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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Prime Minister Modi [Narendra] is strong enough, and he's accomplished much.
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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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Good regulation should be conducive to business and to customer protection.
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Just because we're stupid doesn't mean everybody else was.
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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 believe it's a good thing that people say, Can we find a way to live together in peace? And they did, for the most part.
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I don't mind paying higher taxes, because I've done quite well and I'm blessed to live in this country.
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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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Any good job is a good job. This whole concept of a dead-end job? It's not true. I've heard it my whole life. Jobs lead to dignity. If you're good at the first, then you can get the second. Jobs lead to household formation. Jobs are a better solution for society.
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Our investment bank looks like it does because its customers like our expansive network and want to do equity, debt, M&A, custody, move money, deposit money, et cetera.
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