Jamie Dimon Quotes

I think leadership is more than just being able to cross the t's and dot the i's. It's about character and integrity and work ethic.

We need to have some people fired for reasons of public trust.

A good leader has to at some point trust those around him; otherwise, nothing constructive is going to get done.

One thing that we've invested a lot of in, that we all live by, is the power of the commissioner.

When we tell people to do their jobs, we get workers. When we trust people to get the job done, we get leaders.

Trust is equal parts character and competence... You can look at any leadership failure, and it's always a failure of one or the other.

The manager does things right; the leader does the right thing.

If you don't have good people, and you don't have a good process and you don't have, at some level, the basic reverence for [presidential] office, and an understanding of the incredible responsibilities and obligations, then, I think you can get into trouble.

I have picked the very, very best deputy that I could. David Parker is a fantastic guy. He's a person who I trust absolutely. He's got a wonderful sense for policy. He will be great on organisation, and I know that I could not have a better deputy.

Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.

Gotta watch out for directors.

The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

I learned this early on in the variety business: You've got to give folks responsibility, you've got to trust them, and then you've got to check on them.

A leader must be a good listener. He must be willing to take counsel. He must show a genuine concern and love for those under his stewardship.

The great irony of management is that the higher up you go, the less actual control you have. When you are but a humble coder, you make the computer do exactly what you want; when you're a manager, you only hope that people understand what you want, and then trust/pray that they do it both correctly and in a timely manner.

To be honest, the fact that people trust you gives you a lot of power over people. Having another person's trust is more powerful than all other management techniques put together.

Nobody is going to delegate a lot of power to a secretary that they can't control.

I think our leadership team is a highly accountable leadership team.

In the first rule of politics, you know, Harry Truman, the buck stops here. Take responsibility. What I've learned over the years is that people will give people in politics a lot of rope if they just take responsibility.

It is true that integrity alone won't make you a leader, but without integrity you will never be one.

Leadership demands that we make tough choices.

At the end the day because I believe so strongly in leadership, what I look for first, what I try to assess, is integrity.

I am learning how to delegate and how to empower people.

Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.

Often leaders have the best intentions, but people cannot read their minds. That's why it's important to declare yourself: Tell people why you choose to lead and the code you live by.