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We had a lot of gridlock on a lot of issues. But, the American system is pretty resilient.

Jamie Dimon

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Jamie Dimon
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: March 13
Banker
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New York City
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James Dimon
James Jamie Dimon
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Gridlock
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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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It's offensive to me to be called a cost cutter.
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Japan, Europe, [and] America probably [are] better than last year [2015], not China.
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Good regulation should be conducive to business and to customer protection.
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It can take a long time to get the rules in place that are conducive to growing, sometimes.
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Dodd-Frank is 2,000 pages long. It covers thousands of rules, regulations, interpretations and things like that.
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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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Most CEOs are patriotic and most CEOs can see the problems in front of them, and they want to do something about it. We don't always agree about the ways and means, but the objective? We're totally together.
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The term too big to fail must be excised from our vocabulary.
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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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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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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.
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Because of that [Brexit], you're going to have slow growth and, unfortunately, while there may not be huge volatility, there will be volatility.
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