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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.

Jamie Dimon

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Jamie Dimon
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: March 13
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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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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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We continued to build the business, even in the worst of times. We do business all over America.
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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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Japan, Europe, [and] America probably [are] better than last year [2015], not China.
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All businesses tend to pass costs onto customers.
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I believe it's a good thing that people say, Can we find a way to live together in peace? And they did, for the most part.
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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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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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The real story in housing will be a recovery in the economy that will drive a recovery in housing, When people are working, when there are more jobs, more households forming and people go back to buying cars, they're going to want their apartments and homes. And that's when you'll start to see a recovery in home prices.
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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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I am not embarrassed to be a banker. I am not embarrassed to be in business.
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JPMorgan Chase are among the most successful global investment banks, most successful global asset managers, and, in the United States, one of the most successful retail and commercial bankers. We do a great job for customers.
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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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Their [American banks] big issue will be if they want to deal with the biggest companies, which are doing a lot of business overseas. How they do that is a big question. It's almost impossible to build a global investment bank from scratch. If they want to do that, they probably will have to do an acquisition.
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I hate the word universal, because I don't know exactly what it means. The question is, does it work for the client? Travelers was a diversified, financial conglomerate that did very well. The businesses had nothing to do with each other.
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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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We invested in the downturn and we never stopped serving our clients.
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As countries get wealthier - all of them, together - you're going to have financial assets. That is a good thing. You could argue the assets were traded too much, or that they're too highly valued, or too leveraged.
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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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