“You can design a mortgage system that is different without a Fannie an...” — Jamie Dimon Quote

“You can design a mortgage system that is different without a Fannie and Freddie, but there are principles you have to have, to have a good system.”

“Capping the size of American banks won't eliminate the needs of big businesses; it will force them to turn to foreign banks that won't face the same restrictions.”

“I'm a little bit of an eternal optimist. People always say to me, 'If you go do this and it fails, what are you going to do?' I don't care. I'm going to give it my best shot. That's what I'm going to do. If it doesn't work, it doesn't work. And I'll try again.”

“The path to the CEO's office should not be through the CFO's office, and it should not be through the marketing department. It needs to be through engineering and design.”

“When you work with web design companies in San Francisco, you end up with a bunch of twenty-somethings who have their own cultural peculiarities, including obscurity for its own sake. You give those guys a website for a banking institution and they screw it up, because they are designing for themselves.”

“A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking; and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do.”