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" I am not embarrassed to be a banker. I am not embarrassed to be in business. "
Jamie Dimon
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Business
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" I'm a little bit of an eternal optimist. People always say to me, 'If you go do this and it fails, what are you going to do?' I don't care. I'm going to give it my best shot. That's what I'm going to do. If it doesn't work, it doesn't work. And I'll try again. "
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" Most decisions are not binary, and there are usually better answers waiting to be found if you do the analysis and involve the right people. "
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" The term 'too big to fail' must be excised from our vocabulary. "
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" The best way to look at any business is from the standpoint of the clients. "
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" I've seen people, when they get into these bigger and bigger jobs, it goes to their heads. I've seen it. Some people in life change who they are, and some don't. I'm basically the same guy I've always been. "
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" Trade is very good for the country. It's very good for the GDP. It's good for wages, but it doesn't mean it's always good for every business. So we should have trade assistance, which is about relocation, re-education, and training. "
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" Remember that banks aren't markets. The market is amoral. The market doesn't care who you are. You're a trade to the market. The market will sell you if they think you're riskier. "
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" While legislation obviously is political, we now have allowed regulation to become politicized, which we believe will likely lead to some bad outcomes. "
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" JP Morgan always has higher capital liquidity, that is partially to make up for mistakes and problems and obviously it's a tough economy. We support an oversight committee, we supported some of the compensation, new compensation rules, though we already follow most of them. We support a lot of it. "
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" I am not responsible for the financial crisis, I hate to tell you. "
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Hate
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" Everything needs to work at the same time. But what keeps society vibrant permanently is jobs, industry, business, and stuff like that. It pays for everything else. If you just build affordable housing, and those people don't have jobs, it'll no longer be affordable soon. So you really have to build around the business community. "
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" Donald Trump has put some professional people around himself. Experienced. Successful. I know a lot of people seem to think that success and experience are reasons you shouldn't serve in public office. But they are knowledgeable and smart, and they've been around the world. "
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Smart
" Capping the size of American banks won't eliminate the needs of big businesses; it will force them to turn to foreign banks that won't face the same restrictions. "
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Will
Turn
" The government has the right to change laws and rules and regulations. "
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Government
" If the economy grows, housing gets better, quicker. "
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" You can compromise without violating your principles, but it is nearly impossible to compromise when you turn principles into ideology. "
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" Companies that grow for the sake of growth or that expand into areas outside their core business strategy often stumble. On the other hand, companies that build scale for the benefit of their customers and shareholders more often succeed over time. "
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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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" That's my contribution - running a sound, healthy company that serves millions of customers well and employs hundreds of thousands of people. What else am I going to do? I'm not an artist. I'm not a writer. I'm not a musician. I'd love to be a tennis player or musician. I'm not. "
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" Walk into a Chase branch and we can give you so much quicker, better and faster. Like Wal-Mart. "
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" When my grandfather was born, there was no healthcare. There were no airplanes. There were no boats. There were no trains. There were no communications. No Internet. No widespread knowledge. It will be a completely different world but a much better place in a hundred years. "
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" I love my children. I spend a lot of time with them. "
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" My retirement date, every time you ask me that, I'm going to say five years. I don't want to retire. "
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