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Jamie Dimon Quotes

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

– Jamie Dimon

You wonder, ‘How could it possibly be me?’ Well, of course it could happen to you. You have it. Then, of course, you wake up every morning, and you hope it’s a bad dream. Then you wake up. I have cancer.

– Jamie Dimon

If the economy grows, housing gets better, quicker.

– Jamie Dimon

All businesses tend to pass costs onto customers.

– Jamie Dimon

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

We don’t have a divine right to success. So I agree with a lot of politicians out there when they say, ‘We’ve got serious issues.’ We do: immigration, infrastructure. I think income inequality’s one of them.

– Jamie Dimon

In America, you keep on hearing productivity is low; secular stagnation, it’s a new normal. It’s just not true: We’ve had multiple wars; we’re not educating our kids. We had government shut downs, badly-spent money, failures in the health system, failures and an extreme amount of regulation – that’s why we’re going slow.

– Jamie Dimon

The United States has the best, deepest, widest, and most transparent capital markets in the world which give you, the investor, the ability to buy and sell large amounts at very cheap prices. That is a good thing.

– Jamie Dimon

When people blanket a whole class of people with statements, I just think that is unfair to everybody. I could do the same thing about media. I can do the same thing about politicians or lawyers, and they’re just never accurate.

– Jamie Dimon

The real story in housing will be a recovery in the economy that will drive a recovery in housing, When people are working, when there are more jobs, more households forming and people go back to buying cars, they’re going to want their apartments and homes. And that’s when you’ll start to see a recovery in home prices.

– Jamie Dimon

I hope the story of 2011 is that America gets its mojo back. You’ve got to remember that America has the best universities; it’s got some of the best businesses. It’s got an unbelievable work ethic, rule of law. The story of 2011 will be America blossoming again.

– Jamie Dimon

You read constantly that banks are lobbying regulators and elected officials as if this is inappropriate. We don’t look at it that way.

– Jamie Dimon

The best way to look at any business is from the standpoint of the clients.

– Jamie Dimon

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

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

– Jamie Dimon

You know, the benefit in life is to say, ‘Maybe you made a mistake, let’s dig deep.’

– Jamie Dimon

I get to deal with presidents and prime ministers and – and employees from tellers on up. And I love it.

– Jamie Dimon

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

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