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Wall Street gives money to both [Democrats and Republicans] because they want to be on the good side of whoever becomes president .

Jamie Dimon

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Jamie Dimon
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: March 13
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Our plate is full. We have a lot to do building our company organically and that is our key focus.
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The third arrow (of structural reform) is critically important. Japan has some of the best companies in the world, and if you look at their technology, their capability, it's extraordinary.
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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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You've seen certain credit type products that are going to be in nonbanks, like sophisticated CLO [collateralized loan obligation] tranches and stuff where the capital charge is so high that a bank simply will not own it. Someone will buy it, hedge it, trade it. But it won't typically be a bank.
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The government has the right to change laws and rules and regulations.
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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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It can take a long time to get the rules in place that are conducive to growing, sometimes.
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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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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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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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Just because we're stupid doesn't mean everybody else was.
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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's great that people get together and collaborate, talk about the facts and the analysis, all in the interest of having a great financial system.
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Any good job is a good job. This whole concept of a dead-end job? It's not true. I've heard it my whole life. Jobs lead to dignity. If you're good at the first, then you can get the second. Jobs lead to household formation. Jobs are a better solution for society.
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My operating assumption is we will always have very tough competition. And even with some European banks struggling right now, some of them can reemerge - and maybe even stronger.
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If it is a small rate raises, [there will be] no impact.
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Finance went from being a small business, effectively, to being a big business. In part, that's the growth of the world's wealth. That's called savings.
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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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I was a normal human being, but I did like that. I read a lot. I also liked math and science.
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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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