Top 42 Quotes by Joe Jamail

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

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

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

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.

I'm a very egotistical person.

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.

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

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

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

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.