Jamie Dimon Quotes

Innovation and corporate governance are extremely important to improve the profitability of Japanese companies and encourage them to increase wages, capital spending, and dividends.

People in retail banks are not smart. They have a business model that's quite difficult to not make money out of - but still they somehow manage it.

I would think anyone who does anything is always concerned about their customers.

The strength in our third-quarter financial results is cause for excitement. I'm particularly pleased that we continue to demonstrate impressive growth at the same time we are engaged in important merger discussions.

They say I am a regulator and I think it is just an effort not to comply with the decree. I do not do anything except what the decree requires me to do.

Our business is about technology, yes. But it's also about operations and customer relationships.

When you look at a company that's already succeeded or is at the very top of its game, it isn't necessarily when it's executing well. It tends to be peacetime - you've defeated the competition, you have the highest margins, the highest multiple.

I manage my business; politicians are doing their business. I can only work within their rules and regulations. I can't pick up a political fight.

Nothing that we have authorized conflicts with any law regarding privacy or any provision of the constitution.

Law gave me some structure... all these rules and internal disciplines.

Government regulation is not a dangerous usurpation of your Constitutional rights. It's just a pain in the ass.

Fines have to be incentives to enforce the law. We cannot allow them to become just another cost of doing business

We want to be sure that it is more profitable to play by the rules than it is to game the system.

If our great corporations would more scrupulously observe their legal limitations and duties, they would have less cause to complain of the unlawful limitations of their rights or of violent interference with their operations.

We needed to be uncompromising [with our workforce], to expect 100 percent of our employees to comply 100 percent of the time with complex and ever-changing government mandates. Striving to comply with every law does not mean agreeing with every law. But, even when faced with laws we think are counter-productive, we must first comply. Only then, from a credible position, can we enter into a dialogue with regulatory agencies to demonstrate alternatives that are more beneficial. If these efforts fail, we can then join with others in using education and/or political efforts to change the law

In this era of massive online connectivity, the majority of privacy breaches and data leaks remain unknown, unchallenged, and unregulated. Regulatory compliance alone cannot ensure privacy.

There is no question that the federal government sometimes overdoes it in issuing rules and regulations.

We have many rules and regulations that can be sometimes confusing and complicated. By reaching out to the employer community and educating them on what their responsibilities and obligations are to their work force, that, along, with strong enforcement, is the best way to protect workers.

I have been trying to understand the regulators.

I think there is a sort of box-ticking mentality. Not just in the teaching profession. You hear about it in medicine and nursing. It's a lawyer-driven insistence on meeting prescribed standards rather than just being a good doctor.

Clearly, any issues about breaching of expenses rules should be properly investigated.

Law is when you don't have a method of solving a problem... It's just nailing a proclamation on a wall saying, 'Don't do this.'

Above and beyond, not only are we an innovation company, we are in service of our clients.

A regulator is supposed to create and enforce a standard.

A company not under sanction is just like any other company, period.