Joe Jamail Quotes

Joe Jamail

Profession : Businessman

Birth : October 19, 1925

I sent people to the penitentiary as fast as I could, never thinking about whether they deserved it.

Joe Jamail

I can't describe the feeling I got the first time I won a jury award for an injured person.

Joe Jamail

You had to have a unanimous jury verdict, and one percent of contributory negligence barred all recovery. It was so satisfying to realize I could do it. And I'll tell you what motivated me: competitiveness. I was betting on me. That's what a contingent-fee lawyer does.

Joe Jamail

I think Wallace Hall is an imbecile.

Joe Jamail

When Frank Broyles coached at Arkansas, he used to have a golf tournament each year for all the Southwest Conference coaches.

Joe Jamail

I don't think the trial practice is dead. But it is very ill. There are some days you could throw a hand grenade down the hall of the Harris County Courthouse and not hit anybody.

Joe Jamail

There are more pompous, arrogant, self-centered, mediocre-type people running corporate America who should be sent out on some postal route delivering mail.

Joe Jamail

Ever since I was a kid, I've known I could talk to people.

Joe Jamail

For every dollar we have given to athletics, we have given about 27 to higher education or medical research.

Joe Jamail

The feeling of being accepted and acknowledgement and recognition and fame - I'm vain like everybody else. The feeling of achievement that I've helped the poor or somebody in need far outweighs the money.

Joe Jamail

I spent a year at Southwestern Louisiana Institute, then transferred back to the University of Texas, where I majored in English and history.

Joe Jamail

I didn't do too well until my second year, when I realized that there were no right or wrong answers and that my professors were interested only in how well I could develop an argument.

Joe Jamail

I love my wife. She had money when I didn't.

Joe Jamail

I don't want corporate America to think they can continue their duplicitous double-dealing.

Joe Jamail

If you are not emotionally involved, your client is not getting your best effort.

Joe Jamail

What did I know about lawyering? I just thought it was another way to stay in Austin for another three years.

Joe Jamail

When I walk into a courtroom, I feel like I'm home.

Joe Jamail

That's a good feeling, to save your clients two billion dollars.

Joe Jamail

I think the average American has forgotten the great feel for liberty and accountability that the framers of the Constitution believed.

Joe Jamail

We've got some well-run corporations by some well-intended people who do it right.

Joe Jamail