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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.
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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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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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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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 got a lot of excellent people and businesses from Bear and WaMu. But Bear definitely was more painful. WaMu got us into Florida, California, and other states, which was a huge benefit - to expand and grow and add middle-market, private banking, investment banking, and other products, too.
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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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Japan, Europe, [and] America probably [are] better than last year [2015], not China.
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You read constantly that banks are lobbying regulators and elected officials as if this is inappropriate. We don't look at it that way.
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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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We see very broad-based, moderate, growth. Most of the sectors are quite strong. I don't see any major potholes, and I believe [the economy] is strengthening.
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We invested in the downturn and we never stopped serving our clients.
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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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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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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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Companies are returning a lot of money to shareholders through dividends and buybacks. And a lot of people say that's not a good use of capital. I think that's normal reallocation of capital.
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JP Morgan always has higher capital liquidity, that is partially to make up for mistakes and problems and obviously its a tough economy. We support an oversight committee, we supported some of the compensation, new compensation rules, though we already follow most of them. We support a lot of it.
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You've seen certain credit type products that are going to be in nonbanks, like sophisticated CLO [collateralized loan obligation] tranches and stuff where the capital charge is so high that a bank simply will not own it. Someone will buy it, hedge it, trade it. But it won't typically be a bank.
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I have gotten disturbed at some of the Democrats' anti-business behavior, the sentiment, the attacks on work ethic and successful people. I think it's very counter-productive.
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More people are working, lending is up and savings are up. These are all positive signs for a strengthening economy.
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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.
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