221 Quotes by Jamie Dimon

I’ve asked our people, “Why don’t we just put a revolver on top of our basic loan?” Make it easier for the client.

If you look at the banking business over many years, it’s always been a huge user of technology. This has been going on my whole life, that people have been adding technology, digitizing services.

We’re going to do the right thing for the company and our customers, all things considered.

Banks also have to say no to customers. We can’t always give clients what they want; it may not be in the client’s best interest.

Remember that banks aren’t markets. The market is amoral. The market doesn’t care who you are. You’re a trade to the market. The market will sell you if they think you’re riskier. Banks didn’t do that.

Businesses can be opaque. They are complex. You don’t know how aircraft engines work either.

My operating assumption is we will always have very tough competition. And even with some European banks struggling right now, some of them can reemerge – and maybe even stronger.

Just because we’re stupid doesn’t mean everybody else was.

Our global corporate investment bank competes with Goldman Sachs, Citibank, and a bunch of other banks that are in those businesses. We may have slightly different products or services, but so what? That’s always been true in American business.