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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.

Jamie Dimon

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Jamie Dimon
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: March 13
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The yen is trading where it's trading because people are guessing about people's future interest rates, dollar and yen and about the future growth potential of the economies. And, if this policy works, then the yen will probably strengthen.
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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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Prime Minister Modi [Narendra] is strong enough, and he's accomplished much.
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We, Americans, have the best country on the planet. We have schools, universities, food, water, energy, peaceful neighbors, low corruption, you name it, deepest and widest capital markets. That doesn't mean we shouldn't identify problems. We don't have a divine right to success.
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One of the issues with some of these lenders is going to be, where will their provider of credit be when there's a crisis? That's why some of these smarter services, to support their operations, are courting more permanent capital. They want a source of longer-term funding that can survive a crisis.
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The term too big to fail must be excised from our vocabulary.
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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 .
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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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I do want the tax system to be efficient and be conducive to growth, which it is not.
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We had a lot of gridlock on a lot of issues. But, the American system is pretty resilient.
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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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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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Companies that build scale for the benefit of their customers and shareholders more often succeed over time.
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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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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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There are parts [in Dodd-Frank] that I don't agree with. But, in total, it is what it is.
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I think what you've seen them do recently in the markets is what most of us learn doesn't ultimately work. But I think everyone has to figure that on their own.
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Just because we're stupid doesn't mean everybody else was.
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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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People always say to me, What if it doesn't work? If it doesn't work, we redouble our effort. We're not going to cry like a bunch of babies. We're going to redouble our effort.
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