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Don't do anything stupd. And don't waste money. Let everybody else waste money and do stupid things then we'll buy them.

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 goal of what Japan's central bank is doing is to create growth. If it actually creates growth, in the long run, it will lead to appreciation.
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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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I hate the word universal, because I don't know exactly what it means. The question is, does it work for the client? Travelers was a diversified, financial conglomerate that did very well. The businesses had nothing to do with each other.
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We had a lot of gridlock on a lot of issues. But, the American system is pretty resilient.
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I do want the tax system to be efficient and be conducive to growth, which it is not.
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On Wall Street, there is no Wall Street there are individuals.
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We did not anticipate the political fallout from it. We definitely didn't need it and we paid it back the first day we were allowed to.
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I don't think that [normalization] necessarily is going to damage the emerging economies.
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It's good for America when the rest of the world grows, because you can sell more to the rest of the world.
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Part of [Japanese companies] growing and expanding around the world is ... going to help the Japanese keep their lifestyles [despite Japan's] demographics, as a declining population, and [to] make it more conducive to women to go to work, I think, is a plus.
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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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Just because we're stupid doesn't mean everybody else was.
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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 think normalization is a good thing.
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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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Japan, Europe, [and] America probably [are] better than last year [2015], not China.
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If you were a corporation needing financial services, and I can give you something better, faster, and cheaper across 12 products as opposed to eight, that's business. I'm doing it because I'm serving you I'm not doing it because I want to be universal.
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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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If you went to all those little towns in America, JPMorgan was there in good times and bad times, and, in fact, helped a lot of people through the tough times. And we know that's when they need us the most.
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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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