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" The term 'too big to fail' must be excised from our vocabulary. "
Jamie Dimon
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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. "
Jamie Dimon
People
Artist
Company
" 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
Me
Work
You
" 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. "
Jamie Dimon
Face
Will
Turn
" I am a patriot: I want to help my country and help it grow. "
Jamie Dimon
Grow
Country
Want
" 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. "
Jamie Dimon
World
Place
Knowledge
" 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. "
Jamie Dimon
People
Same
Some People
" 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. "
Jamie Dimon
Together
Talk
People
" I am not responsible for the financial crisis, I hate to tell you. "
Jamie Dimon
I Am
Hate
Financial
" Walk into a Chase branch and we can give you so much quicker, better and faster. Like Wal-Mart. "
Jamie Dimon
Wal-Mart
Better
Chase
" The government has the right to change laws and rules and regulations. "
Jamie Dimon
Rules
Laws
Government
" 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. "
Jamie Dimon
Business
Country
Good
" 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. "
Jamie Dimon
Mistakes
Support
New
" My retirement date, every time you ask me that, I'm going to say five years. I don't want to retire. "
Jamie Dimon
Say
You
Want
" 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. "
Jamie Dimon
You
Better
Decisions
" I am not embarrassed to be a banker. I am not embarrassed to be in business. "
Jamie Dimon
Am
Banker
Business
" If the economy grows, housing gets better, quicker. "
Jamie Dimon
Quicker
Better
Housing
" 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. "
Jamie Dimon
Remember
Care
Will
" You can compromise without violating your principles, but it is nearly impossible to compromise when you turn principles into ideology. "
Jamie Dimon
You
Principles
Impossible
" 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. "
Jamie Dimon
Experience
Know
Smart
" I love my children. I spend a lot of time with them. "
Jamie Dimon
Time
Love
Children
" Economies of scale are a good thing. If we didn't have them, we'd still be living in tents and eating buffalo. "
Jamie Dimon
Good
Buffalo
Living
" The best way to look at any business is from the standpoint of the clients. "
Jamie Dimon
Clients
Any
Best
" 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. "
Jamie Dimon
Business
Community
Society
" While legislation obviously is political, we now have allowed regulation to become politicized, which we believe will likely lead to some bad outcomes. "
Jamie Dimon
Political
Bad
Believe