Tim Cook Quotes

Litigation solves everything.

We're involved right now in some very significant legal battles and it would be the wrong thing for me to do to step out in the middle of those battles.

Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this.

Nobody likes going to court.

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Every unfortunate event does not give rise to lawsuit.

The courts of this country should not be the places where resolution of disputes begins. They should be the places where the disputes end after alternative methods of resolving disputes have been considered and tried.

You always make somebody mad when you decide a lawsuit.

I know from my own experience that lawsuits can be a very slow, wasteful, and needlessly acrimonious way to resolve a problem.

Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.

In India, nobody sues anybody.

Lawyers are like rhinoceroses: thick skinned, short-sighted, and always ready to charge.

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.

In a litigation-happy society, clear agreements often prevent small disagreements from becoming big ones.

If after negotiations there are still some differences outstanding between us, the differences will be adjusted by arms.

Disputes arising out of the application or interpretation of this Treaty shall be resolved by negotiations. Any such disputes which cannot be settled by negotiations shall be resolved by conciliation or submitted to arbitration.

Conflicts that in Sweden and Japan would be solved by quiet consultations … through the bureaucracy are fought out through formal litigation in the American court system.

I don't get to sue just because I don't like something.

Lawsuits take a long time.

In the strange heat all litigation brings to bear on things, the very process of litigation fosters the most profound misunderstandings in the world.

There was something special about watching a manager and umpire both convinced they were totally right, but knowing that one had to be wrong. As an ump, those moments made my job fun, and getting 'nose-to-nose' was part of my job description.

When I used to teach civil procedure as a law professor, I would begin the year by telling my students that 'civil procedure is the etiquette of ritualized battle.' The phrase, which did not originate with me, captured the point that peaceful, developed societies resolve disputes by law rather than by force.

Those who in quarrels interpose, must often wipe a bloody nose.

I'm a recovering lawyer. The practice of law has changed. Every agreement is a fight.

When you're thrust into litigation, you obviously have to make sure you're prepared to deal with that.