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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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Jamie Dimon
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: March 13
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New York City
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We're diversified, we're stable and consistent. Our businesses benefit from each other.
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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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JPMorgan was already, for the most part. Our businesses at JPMorgan share the same cash-management systems. The commercial bank, the private bank, the retail bank, they all use the branches. The cash-management system moves the money around the world - for global corporations, and for you, the consumer, too.
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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 plate is full. We have a lot to do building our company organically and that is our key focus.
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Part of the reason some Japanese companies have underperformed financially was corporate governance and board structures.
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On Wall Street, there is no Wall Street there are individuals.
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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 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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My father and grandfather were stockbrokers, and they would actually take stock certificates from a vault, give it to a runner, and send it to another vault. Then somebody said, Let's digitize it and have one vault. Now the DTCC clears and settles almost everything, and the cost of doing a trade is a tenth of what it was before.
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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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It's offensive to me to be called a cost cutter.
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All our clients know that we're there, we're steady, we do a good job, we earn a fair return for ourselves, which I think is critical.
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It's moderate growth, with some parts of the world better than people think, and better than last year [2015].
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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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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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Manipulating currencies is when you're going into the marketplace and buying something in large amounts to depress the value of the currency.
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Just because we're stupid doesn't mean everybody else was.
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Economies of scale are a good thing. If we didn't have them, we'd still be living in tents and eating buffalo.
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We invested in the downturn and we never stopped serving our clients.
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