Zitat des Tages von Joe Jamail:
Do you know what the root of mediation is? Mediocrity!
I sent people to the penitentiary as fast as I could, never thinking about whether they deserved it.
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.
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'm a very egotistical person.
The money doesn't really matter. I've been a multi-millionaire for a long time. My sons are rich.
For every dollar we have given to athletics, we have given about 27 to higher education or medical research.
I love my wife. She had money when I didn't.
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.
Ever since I was a kid, I've known I could talk to people.
I don't want corporate America to think they can continue their duplicitous double-dealing.
There are more pompous, arrogant, self-centered, mediocre-type people running corporate America who should be sent out on some postal route delivering mail.
The trick is to learn to contain one's ego, not conceal it.
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.
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.
The Depression did more to me than being a little Lebanese kid did.
I can't describe the feeling I got the first time I won a jury award for an injured person.
What did I know about lawyering? I just thought it was another way to stay in Austin for another three years.
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.
