Jamie Dimon Quotes

There's nothing magic about regulations, too much is bad, too little is bad.

We're one of the most highly regulated industries, and we have to pay attention to what government is doing.

To say that only those businesses affected with a public interest may be regulated is but another way of stating that all those businesses which may be regulated are affected with a public interest.

I'm increasingly inclined to think there should be some regulatory oversight, maybe at the national and international level just to make sure that we don't do something very foolish.

You can't overestimate what happens when you encourage regulators to believe that the goal of regulation is not to regulate.

Candidly, I believe most corporations actually don't mind big government.

Is regulation per se bad? Is better regulation bad? I think better regulation is good for the business community, and I think that's something we should get together on.

What one has created by regulation, one could address by regulation.

There is certainly a role for regulation, but regulation should always take into account the impact that it has on markets, a balance that must be constantly weighed.

We have parts of our system which are overwhelmed by regulation. It wasn't the absence of regulation that was the problem. It was despite the presence of regulation you got huge risks built up.

Banks are concerned the central bank is imposing too many regulations. If the trend continues, we'll swing to heavy regulation. We need to have balanced regulation to encourage the economy.

I'm always a little cautious, there's a few amendments that are out there that I think could do some damage, so I've been more concerned about over regulating, going too far.

Developing countries often have hypertrophied bureaucracies, requiring businesses to deal with enormous amounts of red tape.

The reality is regulation often lags behind innovation.

Legislation must be passed which undoes the damage caused by excessive de-regulation. That means reinstalling the regulatory firewalls that were ripped down in 1999.

No one doing big business can avoid some contact with government agencies, regulators, and policy makers.

Only the corporation that shirks from the light would have anything to fear from government. About the welfare of such corporations we need not be over-sensitive.

You can't, in a government agency, regulate everything that moves ... you can't regulate everything ... you must strike a balance.

We can continue to have a policy in which the public interest means whatever they [broadcasters and communications companies] want it to mean in order to make money. Or we can give it real meaning.

The railroads saw that they must either accept control by the State of control the State.

Just because there is a market failure, doesn’t mean there is a government solution.

Chemical plants should not be allowed to regulate their own security.

When you are dealing with the United States Government and the Department of Justice you have to always be looking over your shoulder.

Strong banks want strong regulation.

Regulators are very heavily lobbied and they tend to give in…. We must have strong, vigilant, regulators.