Jamie Dimon Quotes

If consumers are strong, if consumers are protected, if they can trust the marketplace and feel confident that they're not being cheated here and there, then consumers can drive this economy forward.

Instead of gutting consumer protection, we should be expanding it.

Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.

We need a government which, yes, guarantees basic standards in public services, but which also steps in to protect people's wellbeing as they take part in our consumer democracy - particularly online.

No access to me, nor my staff, will ever affect what we do to protect consumers of the state of Florida.

I want to protect consumers from their government.

In consumer protection, you can say it hurts business; that is, it makes them comply with the law, which is actually what we want them to do, but it helps consumers.

Treat all economic questions from the viewpoint of the consumer, for the interests of the consumer are the interests of the human race.

Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer. The maxim is so perfectly self-evident that it would be absurd to attempt to prove it. But in the mercantile system the interest of the consumer is almost constantly sacrificed to that of the producer; and it seems to consider production, and not consumption, as the ultimate end and object of all industry and commerce.

I don't want to have anything to do with the government. And yet if we don't have any regulations, there goes civilization, there goes security, and there goes protecting you against what people are going to sell you.

The level of analysis that is done when you see laws created, whether it's the city or state or federal level - it's much more horse-trading than analysis.

My own personal preference is that the consumer, the individual person should be protected because individual people and the difference between individual people and the diversity we have between people on the planet is so important.

Priorities are set by legislators, regulators and industry interests. The consumer gets the left-overs.

Our job, which Congress gave us, was to protect consumers. That work needs to be done in our communities for people regardless of what happens with elections, regardless of what happens with particular people and particular offices, and that is something that I have tried to stress at my agency.

The government has a key role in regulating and making sure there's an even playing field and protecting consumers. No question about it.

We marked a milestone for consumer empowerment when we began to publish consumer complaint narratives which allow people to share in their own words their experiences in the consumer financial marketplace.

We owe it to consumers to treat their dollars with respect and to double- and triple-check our assumptions about complex marketplaces rather than getting locked into a regulatory tunnel vision that will ultimately leave consumers with fewer, more expensive choices.

The industry must adhere to certain consumer protection norms if the Internet is to remain an open platform for innovation.

We need to be much more robust consumers.

I tell them the rules are made by the government. Every firm should comply. It doesn't mean they can't compete.

Apple does great products, but at the end of the day we think consumers want choice, consumers want openness.

I like to be a strategic policy guy.

I think the big force is going to be consumer buying power.

Consumers are empowered by Yelp and tools like it: before, when they had a bad experience, they didn't have much recourse. They could fume, but often nothing else other than tell their friends.

The consumer is the only man in our economy without a high-powered lobbyist in Washington.