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I agree with people who say we want more income equality we want more consumer protection and we want sounder banks. I agree with all that.

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Jamie Dimon
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: March 13
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New York City
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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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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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We did not anticipate the political fallout from it. We definitely didn't need it and we paid it back the first day we were allowed to.
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We're diversified, we're stable and consistent. Our businesses benefit from each other.
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If you went to all those little towns in America, JPMorgan was there in good times and bad times, and, in fact, helped a lot of people through the tough times. And we know that's when they need us the most.
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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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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 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.
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I think normalization is a good thing.
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It's moderate growth, with some parts of the world better than people think, and better than last year [2015].
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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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But in general, as countries get wealthier, there's going to be more savings, which means you're going to have intermediation. So part of it is just the huge growth in wealth, and part of it was globalization - these companies, these clients getting much bigger and much more global.
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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.
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It might be harder for us to charge a higher interest rate, like they do, so it might not be as profitable for us. But we can either compete or partner, like we've announced with On Deck, which does some of the stuff we just spoke about.
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India is a huge democracy. Prime Minister [Narendra] Modi has ambitions to try to fix the infrastructure, the rules, taxes, education, and to lift up the Indian people. And we're hopeful that that's going to create positive momentum.
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