Joe Jamail
Joe Jamail
Joseph Dahr Jamail, Jr.was an American attorney and billionaire. The wealthiest practicing attorney in America, he was frequently referred to as the "King of Torts"...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth19 October 1925
CountryUnited States of America
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I think I'm doing some good. Obviously, I don't need any more money.
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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 money doesn't really matter. I've been a multi-millionaire for a long time. My sons are rich.
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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 love my wife. She had money when I didn't.
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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.
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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.
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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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Ever since I was a kid, I've known I could talk to people.
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We've got some well-run corporations by some well-intended people who do it right.
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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.
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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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I don't want corporate America to think they can continue their duplicitous double-dealing.
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I was taught that a lawyer was supposed to be a custodian of the community's legal and ethical sense.