Sublime

“honesty,” “integrity and honor,” and doing “the right thing, not necessarily the easy or expedient thing.”

Is he irreplaceable? Is he the Steve Jobs of JPMorgan Chase?

(As his predecessor John Pierpont Morgan had said about a banker’s reputation at the Pujo hearings in front of the House Banking and Currency Committee in 1912, “[It] is his most valuable possession; it is the result of years of faith and honorable dealing and, while it may be quickly lost, once lost cannot be restored for a long time, if ever.”)

“You don’t run a business hoping you don’t have a recession,”

(Dimon is fond of Mark Twain’s wry comment that history does not repeat itself, but it does rhyme.)

“If you can’t say it in the room, don’t say it at all,”