Jamie Dimon Quotes

Admiration takes on a whole new level when you appreciate just how complex it is to run a modern business.

I tried to develop some theories that took account of the uncertainty in the world and the complexity in the world.

Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

Nothing ever goes as planned in China.

Business requires understanding financial matters, but management is different from running the financial aspects of the business - it requires understanding complex systems, how they operate, the nature of organisations, what happens when people interact in groups and how to motivate and guide people.

Stop trying to change reality by attempting to eliminate complexity.

War is so complex that it is beyond the capability of the human mind to understand all the variables.

You can’t really understand the challenges involved with any major tech project until you start trying to build it.

Technology always takes longer [to develop] than you think.

What is the alternative to understanding the complexity of the world?

At the edge of chaos, unexpected outcomes occur. The risk to survival is severe.

The easy way out usually leads back in.

Things are opaque to us, and we are opaque to ourselves.

The real nature of our predicament is completely opaque to us.

Yeah, leading an examined life, I always say, is a pain in the ass. It adds an element of complexity to business that most businessmen don't want to hear about. They just want to call a fabric manufacturer, and say, "Hey, give us 10,000 yards of shirting."

Checklists turn out...to be among the basic tools of the quality and productivity revolution in aviation, engineering, construction - in virtually every field combining high risk and complexity. Checklists seem lowly and simplistic, but they help fill in for the gaps in our brains and between our brains.

There are downsides to everything; there are unintended consequences to everything.

All things are delicately interconnected.

A writer’s job is to cultivate what can go wrong.

It's never a good idea to ask a man on a tight-rope how he keeps his balance: a) he would probably fall off and b) he probably doesn't know what the muscles are called in any case.

An insect is more complex than a star..and is a far greater challenge to understand.

John von Neumann draws attention to what seemed to him a contrast. He remarked that for simple mechanisms, it is often easier to describe how they work than what they do, while for more complicated mechanisms, it is usually the other way around.

The machinery of the world is far too complex for the simplicity of men.

It is the last lesson of modern science, that the highest simplicity of structure is produced, not by few elements, but by the highest complexity.