Joe Jamail Quotes

Joe Jamail

Profession : Businessman

Birth : October 19, 1925

Your attitude will go a long way in determining your success, your recognition, your reputation and your enjoyment in being a lawyer.

Joe Jamail

For me, being a lawyer means to help those in need.

Joe Jamail

I don't think I'm a good ol' boy. Honestly, the last thing I am is a redneck. I like silk sheets, fancy cars, beautiful women, good whiskey.

Joe Jamail

I was taught that a lawyer was supposed to be a custodian of the community's legal and ethical sense.

Joe Jamail

I happen to have a giant ego, an admission that will not shock my close friends or critics. I am not uncomfortable in saying that because the ego of a man often gets great things done.

Joe Jamail

The money doesn't really matter. I've been a multi-millionaire for a long time. My sons are rich.

Joe Jamail

I'm a very egotistical person.

Joe Jamail

We've got some real greedy hogs who own no interest in the company they're running, whose sole interest is in whatever it takes to be able to get to the point to fly out on their golden parachute and milk the shareholder and take risks that they shouldn't take.

Joe Jamail

Any good trial lawyer knows that if you've got one credible expert or scientific study, then you can let the jury decide.

Joe Jamail

I love the system. Let me tell you why. People love it... The people, by and large, have great respect for our law and our system... Why do you think they go to that courthouse instead of killing each other in the streets, taking the law into their own hands?

Joe Jamail

We can still do good for others and do good for ourselves. I would wither and die, truthfully. I need to be somewhere where the light's on me.

Joe Jamail

By not trying the small cases, the lawyers don't get the courtroom experience. So when the huge, bet-the-company cases come along, there are only a handful of trial lawyers who can handle it. That's why these big corporations still call us old-timers every day.

Joe Jamail

I didn't know who she was, but I knew she was hungry, so I started handing out $100 bills and called the office and told them to bring me a bunch more. Then I had my cousin's store deliver a bunch of smoked ham and turkeys. I mean, these people are hungry and living under a bridge.

Joe Jamail

It has been pointed out to me, more than once, that for someone who chose a profession steeped in procedure and protocol, I had little use for either.

Joe Jamail

Do you know what the root of mediation is? Mediocrity!

Joe Jamail

I think I'm doing some good. Obviously, I don't need any more money.

Joe Jamail

If you start comparing my practice of law to what I could have been - selling bananas - you'll know why I gave money to the University of Texas.

Joe Jamail

It's a great feeling knowing you've helped someone. That's what I've spent my life doing and my practice.

Joe Jamail

It's not a bad thing fighting for equality and helping the poor. It's not a bad thing to have on your professional tombstone: 'He believed in equality and he helped the poor.'

Joe Jamail

The Depression did more to me than being a little Lebanese kid did.

Joe Jamail