Joe Jamail Quotes
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I can't describe the feeling I got the first time I won a jury award for an injured person.
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I was taught that a lawyer was supposed to be a custodian of the community's legal and ethical sense.
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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.'
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I love my wife. She had money when I didn't.
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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.
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I sent people to the penitentiary as fast as I could, never thinking about whether they deserved it.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I think I'm doing some good. Obviously, I don't need any more money.
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The money doesn't really matter. I've been a multi-millionaire for a long time. My sons are rich.
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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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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.
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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.
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For every dollar we have given to athletics, we have given about 27 to higher education or medical research.
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I'm a very egotistical person.
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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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That's a good feeling, to save your clients two billion dollars.
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If you are not emotionally involved, your client is not getting your best effort.
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We've got some well-run corporations by some well-intended people who do it right.
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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.
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The trick is to learn to contain one's ego, not conceal it.
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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.