48 Quotes by James P. Gorman

I'm not that interested in just being around powerful people for the sake of it.

That is what made America great: that everyone had the opportunity to be a winner. And I think it's still there. I'm certainly a beneficiary of it.

If you want to spend weekends with your family, something's got to give.

I have a direct way of speaking. What I do is tend to lay out everything; I tend to tell people what I'm going to do and how I'm going to do it and what is success for us and what's not... without being too parochial about it, I think Aussies are more direct.

I'm pretty invisible, and that's just fine.

I think anybody who says they don't care about being liked is lying. I care if my dog waves its tail when I come home. But you're not going to make everybody happy.

To enable large U.S. banks to support their clients better, the Volcker rule should be clarified.

You can't operate a business running at a loss, and particularly if you're doing it by paying yourselves. It just doesn't fly.

I'm married to a health-conscious American. I try to eat well, but definitely, as an Australian, you have some of the red meat, lamb, steak, barbecues as part of your culture.