JAMES P. GORMAN

If you look for a problem long enough, and you can’t find it, the possibility exists that it doesn’t exist.

Most corporate disasters are driven not by market forces, but by CEOs messing things up.

I'm one of 10 children, and all my brothers call me Jim. And all my sisters... well, they call me something even more affectionate. My mother calls me James, and I do what my mother tells me.

I figured if you live in a country long enough, you want to be a part of the political process, and you sort of owe it to your hosts. They've accepted you. Why wouldn't you accept them?

I think Brexit is disappointing from an economic perspective.

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.

Markets shouldn't be moving in a straight line.

The basic architecture of Dodd-Frank makes sense. At the same time, as a number of regulators and legislators have observed, the act was a complex effort that produced thousands of pages of rules.

When it comes time to go into the booth, I will be writing down President Mike Bloomberg.

I certainly have no regret living in the U.S. The quality of life in Australia is good, but it is bloody good here as well.

Bringing world leaders together as human beings rather than political machines is very important.

The U.S. is becoming an industrial heartland again.

The world is getting better, but not in a straight line.

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

There are elements of Dodd-Frank that clearly need to be curtailed.

If you underperform for your owners, eventually they pick up their bat and ball and go home.

The U.S. economy is the global economic driver. And within the U.S. economy, the U.S. consumer is the global driver.

Let's be honest: It wasn't just the banks who messed up. There were a lot of people who tried to buy assets they couldn't afford. That's a reality.

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

Salomon Brothers, E. F. Hutton, Shearson, Lehman, Smith Barney... all these firms disappear, and the Street just rolls on.

Regulators around the world have achieved an unprecedented level of collaboration since the financial crisis to create global standards for financial institutions. American regulators have largely viewed these international standards as a floor, and imposed higher standards on U.S. institutions.

Jamie Dimon is doing a great job; J.P. Morgan is a great institution.

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.

You can fire your revenues by firing your people.

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