Jamie Dimon Quotes About School
-
We've made a huge effort globally and in the US, in getting kids jobs. This is one piece. The South Bronx and inner-city schools need it more than most. It's our hometown; JPMorgan Chase banks a lot of people here. If you see the school, it works. Kids all getting jobs, they're smiling, they're proud of themselves. That's what we need to do in inner-city schools.
→ -
My daughter asked me when she came home from school, "What's the financial crisis?" and I said, it's something that happens every five to seven years.
→ -
If you look at Detroit, that mayor, it's been a train wreck for 40 years, the population has gone from 2 million to 700,000. This Mayor comes in, and he talked about streetlights, sanitation, jobs, policing, schools, affordable housing. He's doing it all, and it's growing for the first time in 30 years. Literally, one man. But that one man couldn't do it without business. And business couldn't have done it without a political environment where they wanted to improve things. If you had an antibusiness environment there, it would still be down there.
→ -
When people talk about people being left behind - middle wages have not gone up for years, and we should recognize that, and there I think we need growth and skills - but there are these other people who have been left behind. When I say out loud, "Fifty percent of inner-city schoolkids do not graduate from high school," that is a national catastrophe. We should be ringing the alarm bells. It's not fair.
→ -
We, Americans, have the best country on the planet. We have schools, universities, food, water, energy, peaceful neighbors, low corruption, you name it, deepest and widest capital markets. That doesn't mean we shouldn't identify problems. We don't have a divine right to success.
→
Related Authors
-
Jeffrey R. Immelt Business person -
John Thain Businessman -
Henry Paulson Former United States Secretary of the Treasury -
Timothy Geithner Former United States Secretary of the Treasury -
Kenneth I. Chenault Executive -
J. P. Morgan Financier -
Lloyd Blankfein Executive -
Vikram Pandit Executive -
-
Carl Icahn Businessman -
Richard S. Fuld, Jr. Banker -
Ben Bernanke Economist -
Robert Rubin Former United States Secretary of the Treasury -
Warren Buffett Investor -
James P. Gorman Executive -
Andrew Ross Sorkin Journalist -
Sanford I. Weill Executive -
Aaron Burr Former Vice President of the United States -
John G. Stumpf Executive -
Elizabeth Warren United States Senator