Jamie Dimon Quotes

To prosper and advance, the American business sector is going to need a financial system oriented toward business, not 'home ownership.'

Bankers are doing God’s Work!

My dad was a banker, and I've always had an interest in it.

I always wanted to start a public company and make a lot of money.

Finance is wholly different from the rest the economy.

I've always had an interest in business, and my interest in business has really expanded over the years.

I didn't go to business school, didn't care about financial stuff and the stock market.

In our equities business, 49 of the 50 most important Lehman clients are back doing business with us. The flows are 75 to 80 per cent of what they were prior to the bankruptcy. The issues which damaged Lehman were around commercial mortgages and illiquid private equity assets.

We have this culture of financialization. People think they need to make money with their savings rather with their own business. So you end up with dentists who are more traders than dentists. A dentist should drill teeth and use whatever he does in the stock market for entertainment.

The real problem at the moment is that the banks - because of their existing culture, which is frankly anti-business, obsession with short-term trading profits, not focusing on the long term - are throttling the recovery of British industry.

Once you're involved in a business, it's part of what you do. It's the way you are.

What we now call 'finance' is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love.

I'm a businessman, and I think there's nothing wrong with being a businessman provided you have the right headspace and do good things with the money you make.

If there is anything I would do differently in my life, it is that I would study business more. I'm trying to teach my daughter Chloe at an early age about investing and money so she's not afraid of it.

I'm a millionaire, I'm a multi-millionaire. I'm filthy rich. You know why I'm a multi-millionaire? 'Cause multi-millions like what I do.

There's more honor in investment management than in investment banking.

My adversary is the world of finance.

I never took classic business classes in college, so I don't have the background that any of the people running large companies have.

Succeeding in business is not just about making money.

You're not going to hear me singing songs about Wall Street because I don't know anything about that.

I have used the laws of this country just like the greatest people that you read about every day in business have used the laws of this country, the chapter laws, to do a great job for my company, for myself, for my employees, for my family, et cetera.

I'm so bored by business and money.

I've always been sensible with my money. I can't say I'm a business genius.

Not only am I a spender, I have had a couple of business people in the past who have been spending my money quite happily.

Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.