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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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Jamie Dimon
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: March 13
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New York City
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Good regulation should be conducive to business and to customer protection.
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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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If I ran the whole place like it was my way or the highway, we would not be as good a company. I'm going to have mistakes - they'll be made on my watch and will embarrass me. But I'll also make sure the company learns from them so it can become a better company.
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You have your own culture and your own ways of doing things. I hope Japan continues on this path.
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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've accommodated the new rules and regulations. We've served our clients and had quite good returns.
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It's offensive to me to be called a cost cutter.
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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.
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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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On Wall Street, there is no Wall Street there are individuals.
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Capping the size of American banks won't eliminate the needs of big businesses it will force them to turn to foreign banks that won't face the same restrictions.
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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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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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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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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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Just because you have a good hand today doesn't mean it's good tomorrow. And some of the things we're doing may become very disadvantageous at some point.
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I do want the tax system to be efficient and be conducive to growth, which it is not.
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I completely agree with the concept that American citizens shouldn't expect that a failure of a bank would cost them money, or that it would hurt the economy.
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We're going to do the right thing for the company and our customers, all things considered.
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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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