If the economy grows, housing gets better, quicker.

I am not embarrassed to be a banker. I am not embarrassed to be in business.

It's good for America when the rest of the world grows, because you can sell more to the rest of the world.

Their [American banks] big issue will be if they want to deal with the biggest companies, which are doing a lot of business overseas. How they do that is a big question. It's almost impossible to build a global investment bank from scratch. If they want to do that, they probably will have to do an acquisition.

It's great that people get together and collaborate, talk about the facts and the analysis, all in the interest of having a great financial system.

If I ran the whole place like it was my way or the highway, we would not be as good a company. I'm going to have mistakes - they'll be made on my watch and will embarrass me. But I'll also make sure the company learns from them so it can become a better company.

Japan, Europe, [and] America probably [are] better than last year [2015], not China.