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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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Jamie Dimon
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: March 13
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Our plate is full. We have a lot to do building our company organically and that is our key focus.
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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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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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I think the politics have gotten better in the United States, which makes it easier to pass legislation, budgets and treaties.
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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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I think the Republicans have really thoughtful financial policies, and I'm more in the middle on taxation.
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I was a normal human being, but I did like that. I read a lot. I also liked math and science.
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I am not embarrassed to be a banker. I am not embarrassed to be in business.
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We represent companies from around the world who say, I want to look at Japanese companies. I want to invest in Japan.
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Part of the reason some Japanese companies have underperformed financially was corporate governance and board structures.
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Because of that [Brexit], you're going to have slow growth and, unfortunately, while there may not be huge volatility, there will be volatility.
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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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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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No one can forecast the economy with certainty.
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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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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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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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