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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. "

Jamie Dimon

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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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" 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. "

" 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. "

" If the economy grows, housing gets better, quicker. "

" Walk into a Chase branch and we can give you so much quicker, better and faster. Like Wal-Mart. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The term 'too big to fail' must be excised from our vocabulary. "

" I love my children. I spend a lot of time with them. "

" I am a patriot: I want to help my country and help it grow. "

" While legislation obviously is political, we now have allowed regulation to become politicized, which we believe will likely lead to some bad outcomes. "

" 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. "

" You can compromise without violating your principles, but it is nearly impossible to compromise when you turn principles into ideology. "

" 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. "

" My retirement date, every time you ask me that, I'm going to say five years. I don't want to retire. "

" 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. "

" 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. "