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I think what you've seen them do recently in the markets is what most of us learn doesn't ultimately work. But I think everyone has to figure that on their own.

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Jamie Dimon
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: March 13
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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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The term too big to fail must be excised from our vocabulary.
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If it is a small rate raises, [there will be] no impact.
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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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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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Our plate is full. We have a lot to do building our company organically and that is our key focus.
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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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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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One of the issues with some of these lenders is going to be, where will their provider of credit be when there's a crisis? That's why some of these smarter services, to support their operations, are courting more permanent capital. They want a source of longer-term funding that can survive a crisis.
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All businesses tend to pass costs onto customers.
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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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If you have the choice, it's far better to say, That person has the job, and they really don't need that much of my oversight. Maybe they don't need any of it.
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We're diversified, we're stable and consistent. Our businesses benefit from each other.
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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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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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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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If the government wants to do social policy, it should not be done in a quasi-public company. If you have a mortgage guarantee company which is done by the U.S. government, it should be guaranteed by the originators, i.e., the shareholder.
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