Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
More people are working, lending is up and savings are up. These are all positive signs for a strengthening economy.
Jamie Dimon
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Jamie Dimon
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: March 13
Banker
Business Person
New York City
New York
James Dimon
James Jamie Dimon
Savings
Signs
Saving
Positive
Economy
Working
People
Lending
Strengthening
More quotes by Jamie Dimon
I don't like the term universal bank. The Chinese government legitimately wants to have a very strong economy. When they talk about SOE reform, they know that's part of it.
Jamie Dimon
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.
Jamie Dimon
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.
Jamie Dimon
I wanted to start by saying that the eurozone - there are two reasons they formed the European Union. One is for political peace and rationalization. And I think that's a good thing for a continent that went through hundreds of years of wars.
Jamie Dimon
I am struck that so many of our leaders in the U.S. forget how strong our country can be.
Jamie Dimon
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.
Jamie Dimon
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.
Jamie Dimon
I don't think that [normalization] necessarily is going to damage the emerging economies.
Jamie Dimon
It's offensive to me to be called a cost cutter.
Jamie Dimon
I also believe that most of the emerging economies have a fairly large amount of foreign exchange reserves, relative to 10 years ago.
Jamie Dimon
Don't do anything stupd. And don't waste money. Let everybody else waste money and do stupid things then we'll buy them.
Jamie Dimon
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.
Jamie Dimon
The government has the right to change laws and rules and regulations.
Jamie Dimon
Our investment bank looks like it does because its customers like our expansive network and want to do equity, debt, M&A, custody, move money, deposit money, et cetera.
Jamie Dimon
You read constantly that banks are lobbying regulators and elected officials as if this is inappropriate. We don't look at it that way.
Jamie Dimon
Just because we're stupid doesn't mean everybody else was.
Jamie Dimon
I advise other companies' CEOs, don't fall into the trap where you go, 'Where's the growth? Where's the growth?' Where's the growth?' They feel a tremendous pressure to grow. Well, sometimes you can't grow. Sometimes you don't want to grow. In certain businesses, growth means you either take on bad clients, excess risk, or too much leverage.
Jamie Dimon
The transaction reflects our disciplined strategy of investing capital in core businesses where we can leverage scale and expertise for competitive advantage. In addition to being a great strategic fit, the deal is compelling financially.
Jamie Dimon
I do believe that some of these regulations made the markets more volatile, and it remains to be seen how bad that can be.
Jamie Dimon
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.
Jamie Dimon