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I don't mind paying higher taxes, because I've done quite well and I'm blessed to live in this country.

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Jamie Dimon
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: March 13
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New York City
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JPMorgan was already, for the most part. Our businesses at JPMorgan share the same cash-management systems. The commercial bank, the private bank, the retail bank, they all use the branches. The cash-management system moves the money around the world - for global corporations, and for you, the consumer, too.
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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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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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That's probably good, all things being equal, for emerging markets, not bad, even though it may not be great for all their currencies.
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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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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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The term too big to fail must be excised from our vocabulary.
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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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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 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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I don't think that [normalization] necessarily is going to damage the emerging economies.
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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 am struck that so many of our leaders in the U.S. forget how strong our country can be.
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I think if we had another set of policies for - not the crisis years, but after that, that we might be growing faster. But we didn't. And some of that was Republicans' [fault], by the way.
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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 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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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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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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