We use technology to make it cheaper, better, and faster for the client. And then if you have the most flow, you can win. Now, having said that, Silicon Valley wants to take on this business. They think they see an opening.

Part of the concept of the euro zone was to establish a common market. The banks were going to bank across all their countries like we bank across states. But that concept got killed for a whole bunch of reasons that I won't get into. That was a good concept, by the way. It may yet return, because there are huge economies of scale in banking. That's another thing people don't quite get.

I do want the tax system to be efficient and be conducive to growth, which it is not.

I want Japan to think and say that we are better off for JPMorgan having been here through thick and thin.

Europe is the most complicated place, in my opinion.

Acting like everyone who's been successful is bad and because you're rich you're bad, I don't understand it.

If you were a corporation needing financial services, and I can give you something better, faster, and cheaper across 12 products as opposed to eight, that's business. I'm doing it because I'm serving you; I'm not doing it because I want to be universal.