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Jamie Dimon
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: March 13
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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.
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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.
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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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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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I do want the tax system to be efficient and be conducive to growth, which it is not.
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The term too big to fail must be excised from our vocabulary.
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I think the Republicans have really thoughtful financial policies, and I'm more in the middle on taxation.
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It's offensive to me to be called a cost cutter.
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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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I am not embarrassed to be a banker. I am not embarrassed to be in business.
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The question is how do you do it [more consumer protection] so that it actually works that way? And that takes analysis, and sometimes collaboration between government and business, to understand how that works.
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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'm not going to name anybody, but I think there are about five to 10 global institutions that will emerge as our primary competitors across the board. They're adjusting to this new world, like we are.
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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 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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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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I am still a Democrat. The main reason is because I don't like the Republican stance on some social values. Not that I disagree with all of them. I just don't think they have a right to impose it upon other people. I've been public about that.
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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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Prime Minister Modi [Narendra] is strong enough, and he's accomplished much.
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The goal of what Japan's central bank is doing is to create growth. If it actually creates growth, in the long run, it will lead to appreciation.
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