Quotes from James P. Gorman

I am very proud of my Australian roots.

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

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't operate a business running at a loss, and particularly if you're doing it by paying yourselves. It just doesn't fly.

Supply and demand eventually rebalance. We've seen this again and again and again.

I think anybody who says they don't care about being liked is lying. I care if my dog waves its tail when I come home. But you're not going to make everybody happy.

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

If you're just interested in the prestige of banking, that's not what's going to sustain you. You have to be interested in what we do: managing and originating capital, helping issuers and investors come together is great, bringing these companies to life.

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

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?

Banking's a sexy industry! Creative - it's dynamic, it's global, it's fast-moving, you bring a lot of talented people together!

If you want to spend weekends with your family, something's got to give.

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

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.

I think Brexit is disappointing from an economic perspective.

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.

You can fire your revenues by firing your people.

As much as the banking system may not be terribly popular, it is an essential part of the economy.

That is what made America great: that everyone had the opportunity to be a winner. And I think it's still there. I'm certainly a beneficiary of it.

Banks should decide on dividend increases and share buybacks after receiving the results of stress tests, when they know how much capital regulators wish them to hold.

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

If you consider the contribution of plumbing to human life, the other sciences fade into insignificance.

The Brexit vote, the presidential elections in the U.S., a number of the other regional political movements - that's not a flash in the pan.

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.