Quotes by Joe Jamail - Page 1

I'm a very egotistical person.
Joe Jamail /
Egotistical
Person Very
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I think Wallace Hall is an imbecile.
Joe Jamail /
Hall
Imbecile
Wallace
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When I walk into a courtroom, I feel like I'm home.
Joe Jamail /
Courtroom
Walk
Home Feel Like
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Do you know what the root of mediation is? Mediocrity!
Joe Jamail /
Do You Know
Mediation
Root
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The trick is to learn to contain one's ego, not conceal it.
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Ego
Conceal
Contain
Trick
Learn
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That's a good feeling, to save your clients two billion dollars.
Joe Jamail /
Clients
Dollars
Good Feeling
Billion
Billion Dollars
Feeling
Save
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The Depression did more to me than being a little Lebanese kid did.
Joe Jamail /
Lebanese
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If you are not emotionally involved, your client is not getting your best effort.
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Effort
Involved
Client
Getting
Emotionally
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We've got some well-run corporations by some well-intended people who do it right.
Joe Jamail /
Corporations
People Right Who
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I don't want corporate America to think they can continue their duplicitous double-dealing.
Joe Jamail /
Corporate
Corporate America
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I can't describe the feeling I got the first time I won a jury award for an injured person.
Joe Jamail /
Injured
Jury
Award
Describe
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The money doesn't really matter. I've been a multi-millionaire for a long time. My sons are rich.
Joe Jamail /
Time Money Long
Sons
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I sent people to the penitentiary as fast as I could, never thinking about whether they deserved it.
Joe Jamail /
Deserved
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I was taught that a lawyer was supposed to be a custodian of the community's legal and ethical sense.
Joe Jamail /
Legal
Ethical
Taught
Custodian
Supposed
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It's a great feeling knowing you've helped someone. That's what I've spent my life doing and my practice.
Joe Jamail /
Life Great My Life
Great Feeling
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For every dollar we have given to athletics, we have given about 27 to higher education or medical research.
Joe Jamail /
Medical
Athletics
Given
Higher
Higher Education
Medical Research
Research
Dollar
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What did I know about lawyering? I just thought it was another way to stay in Austin for another three years.
Joe Jamail /
Another Way
Austin
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Any good trial lawyer knows that if you've got one credible expert or scientific study, then you can let the jury decide.
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Credible
Jury
Study
Expert
Scientific
Trial
Trial Lawyer
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When Frank Broyles coached at Arkansas, he used to have a golf tournament each year for all the Southwest Conference coaches.
Joe Jamail /
Arkansas
Coaches
Frank
Coached
Conference
Each Year
Golf Tournament
Southwest
Tournament
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Your attitude will go a long way in determining your success, your recognition, your reputation and your enjoyment in being a lawyer.
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Success
Attitude
Enjoyment
Lawyer
Long
Long Way
Recognition
Reputation
Way
Will
Go
Being
Determining
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I think the average American has forgotten the great feel for liberty and accountability that the framers of the Constitution believed.
Joe Jamail /
Accountability
Average
Forgotten
Framers
Liberty
Average American
Believed
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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 /
Beautiful Women
Fancy
Honestly
Redneck
Sheets
Silk
Whiskey
Good Women Beautiful
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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 /
Institute
Louisiana
Transferred
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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 /
Good Light Me
Truthfully
Wither
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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 /
Bananas
Selling
Comparing
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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 /
Protocol
Me More Someone
Chose
Pointed
Procedure
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There are more pompous, arrogant, self-centered, mediocre-type people running corporate America who should be sent out on some postal route delivering mail.
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Running
Arrogant
Corporate
Corporate America
Delivering
Mail
Pompous
Self Centered
People America More
Postal
Route
Sent
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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 /
Equality
Fighting
Poor
Tombstone
Bad Thing
Believed
Helped
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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 /
County
Grenade
Ill
Practice
Anybody
Hit
Dead
Hall
Hand
Harris
Throw
Trial
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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 /
Admission
Close Friends
Critics
Great Things
Shock
Uncomfortable
Great Done Man
Great Man I Am
Close
Gets
Happen
Saying
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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 /
Answers
Professors
Interested
Develop
Realized
Second
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Medical research is needed, and I just saw there was a need for help that the government - state or federal - was not spending the taxpayers' money on helping people get through college.
Joe Jamail /
Helping
Medical Research
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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 /
Accepted
Achievement
Fame
Recognition
Vain
Everybody Else
Helped
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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 /
Great Respect
Streets
Love Respect Great
Courthouse
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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 /
Big Corporations
Cases
Corporations
Courtroom
Handful
Huge
Trial Lawyers
Call
Every Day
Lawyers
Only A Handful
Trial
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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 /
Golden
Greedy
Milk
Sole
Hogs
No Interest
Parachute
Whose
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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 /
Betting
Competitiveness
Jury
Motivated
Negligence
Recovery
Satisfying
Verdict
Barred
One Percent
Unanimous
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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 /
Bills
Cousin
Ham
Hungry
Turkeys
Me People Living
Bridge
Deliver
Handing
Smoked
Store
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