Jamie Dimon Quotes

I've always said there is a boulevard that exists between compromising your principles and getting everything you want. Now, we should never compromise our principles. And I never have. Those are the things that people vote for you on, that's the core of who you are. But there's always a boulevard between that and getting everything you want.

Politics is compromise, by its very nature. But we never compromise on our values and beliefs.

Ideology knows the answer before the question has been asked. Principles are something different: a set of values that have to be adapted to circumstances but not compromised away.

There's more than one way to get to the goal that you want to get to, but once you compromise your own principles, then you're lost. You're really lost.

It's not that I'm not willing to compromise. But I won't compromise on principles.

You can’t set aside … values in the name of political expediency.

The hardest thing in life is to know when to hold fast to one’s principles and when it is acceptable to bend them.

If you're operating from strong principles, you can compromise when the person on the other side is operating from principles you respect.

Compromise for compromise sake is never good, unless it is grounded in principles.

Let no one charge me with ever having abused or encouraged weakness or surrendered on matters of principle. But I have said, as I say again, that every trifle must not be dignified into a principle.

Don't compromise your principles.

You have to maintain your principles but have a broader appeal.

I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

I think a man becomes less than a man when he begins to compromise on what he believes is right.

I'm willing to negotiate, but not compromise my core principles.

The fact is, you never compromise on principles. If people on the far Left, they have a principle to stand by, they should never compromise; those of us on the Right should not either.

I don't compromise my principles for politics.

Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.

If you can’t learn to compromise an issue without compromising yourself then you better not be a legislator and you better not marry.

While I am willing to compromise on process or on programs, I will not compromise my principles, nor would I expect those I work with to do so.

To compromise simply means that you go a tiny bit below what you know is right.

Never compromise a principle or relinquish a vital truth.

I'm convinced that the most important division in human affairs is probably not the one between left and right, liberal and conservative. It's the one between zealotry and understanding, between absolute conviction and compromise, between preachers and politicians.

I don't think there's anything in the compromise that means that there's a clash of ethics.

The test of a belief is not exclusively in the belief itself, but also in the intentions and actions of those who embrace it.