Jamie Dimon devours five newspapers every morning, and said the New York Post is the first one he reads that day.
After waking up at 4:30 a.m., “I read five papers in a very specific way, and you should listen to them,” the JPMorgan Chase CEO told the Wall Street Journal. Extensive interview on Thursday.
“I’m flipping through the mailbox because everyone is doing it,” the Wall Street mogul begins, speaking to someone off camera near the end of a 37-minute videotaped interview. He flashed a conspiratorial smile for a moment.
Mr. Dimon said he continues to read big newspapers such as the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post and New York Times, but said the Gray Lady’s business section was “not very good.” He usually reads International News from the Financial Times at the end of his morning reading session.
“I like to read, and I read for hours in the morning. But I like to do a little exercise before going to the office,” added the 68-year-old boss at one of America’s largest financial institutions. He has held this position for nearly 20 years.
When asked about social media, Dimon said he’s not interested in social media and didn’t even have his cell phone with him during the interview.
“I think people should spend a little bit of time on that and think a little bit more about it,” Dimon said. “I don’t use social media at all. I test it every year — I literally just go for a week and see what everyone else (Reels, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok) is doing. , then click to exit.
Elsewhere in an interview with Wall Street Journal Editor-in-Chief Emma Tucker, Dimon danced about whether he would retire in the next five years, but he has been saying so for at least the past six years.
“I’m done saying that anymore,” Dimon said, adding that he would only resign “when I can no longer do my best and give my all.”
“It’s entirely up to the board,” he said, declaring that “there is still energy and capacity” to run JPMorgan. JPMorgan earlier this month reported a modest 6% profit increase in its record first quarter. In 2023, Wall Street giants made nearly $50 billion in profits.
“I still think I’m getting older,” Dimon added. “As you get older, you gain wisdom.” “I hope to provide value to my company and my country through this perch.”
Dimon said at the beginning of the roundtable that he has become more cautious about making a difference in the world since he was diagnosed with throat cancer in 2014.
“I love my job, I love my family, I love all of those things, so I haven’t really changed anything, but I’m a little more intentional,” Dimon said of her cancer experience at the time of her 2014 diagnosis. added about. , the details were unknown but it was deemed “curable.”
Years later, he also underwent heart surgery that Tucker described as “near death” to treat an acute aortic dissection. What Mayo Clinic Explains It is described as a “serious condition in which lacerations occur in the lining of the body’s major arteries.”
“Blood is flowing from my tears… [and] “Aortic dissection is often fatal when blood passes outside the aortic wall,” says the Mayo Clinic.
During the 2020 surgery, Dimon admitted, “When I was being wheeled into the operating room for the autopsy, I knew it was a 50-50 thing.” It turned out that it was much more serious. It was held.
Still, “I had no regrets,” added Dimon, who has three daughters with Judith Kens, his wife of more than 40 years.
Representatives for JPMorgan did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment.
