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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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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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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've accommodated the new rules and regulations. We've served our clients and had quite good returns.
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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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Well, if you were the American public, you saw a catastrophe. In general, you would say, The biggest institutions of America - Washington, broadly, and Wall Street, broadly - they're to blame. And, broadly, they're right.
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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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I am struck that so many of our leaders in the U.S. forget how strong our country can be.
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If it is a small rate raises, [there will be] no impact.
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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'm a really big believer - this is not a statement about President [Barack] Obama, but whoever is president - that good policy is really important.
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You cannot prove this in real time, but when economists 20 years from now write a book on the recovery, it may well be entitled, It could have been much better.
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My operating assumption is we will always have very tough competition. And even with some European banks struggling right now, some of them can reemerge - and maybe even stronger.
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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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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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On Wall Street, there is no Wall Street there are individuals.
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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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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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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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The term too big to fail must be excised from our vocabulary.
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Just because we're stupid doesn't mean everybody else was.
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