Andrew Yang Quotes

As a private lawyer, I could bill $750 an hour, but I don't.

Your law may be perfect, your knowledge of human affairs may be such as to enable you to apply it with wisdom and skill, and yet without individual acquaintance with men, their haunts and habits, the pursuit of the profession becomes difficult, slow, and expensive.

Nobody wants to be a lawyer - it's hard work. But it was kind of my academic route.

Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.

You can't be a practicing attorney without being very disciplined and detail-oriented and having good time management.

I knew I could control one thing, and that is my time and my hours and my effort and my efficiency.

Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.

I passed the Bar on the first shot, But I have never practiced law.

Lawyers have to make a living, and can only do so by inducing people to believe that a straight line is crooked.

Being a lawyer, even in a city as large as Chicago, is like being a citizen of a small town. I love watching the life of the town play out. You know, the rise and fall of individual lives in the entire community is just fascinating to me.

As for lawyers, it's more fun to play one than to be one.

I can't see that it's wrong to give him a little legal experience before he goes out to practice law.

One lawyer will make work for another.

I studied law, so perhaps I might have made it to the Bar, though I gave up that idea when I suspected playing a barrister was probably much more fun than being one.

The law seemed to be always what I came back to. I have never, one day in my life as a lawyer, regretted my decision to become a lawyer.

It's fine to get paid and get a big verdict, but to go out and represent people, sometimes in unglamorous ways, is really what lawyering is all about.

The course I teach, Professional Responsibility, was brought into law-school curriculums and required by most states for admission to the bar beginning in the 1970s.

I was one of the worst attorneys. I didn't enjoy law.

The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day.

I'm a lawyer. I make lawyers for a living.

Lawyers houses are built on the heads of fooles.

I look back on my years as a Wall Street lawyer as time spent in a foreign country.

It's the duty of a lawyer to represent anyone for whom a responsible argument could be made.

Every year law schools churn out thousands of lawyers. We don't need any more lawyers. We need more lawyers like we need more talk-show hosts.

Liar: A lawyer with a roving commission.