Lee Scott Quotes

Even when you are right, there are costs and taxes associated with being tactical. When you are wrong, there are opportunity costs.

A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.

Never make a major decision based solely on money.

Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.

Every unfortunate event does not give rise to lawsuit.

A contract is an ask game, and if it asks for an hour, and I submit to an hour, then it's an hour. When I look at a contract, I look at the obligation - where, when, how long, the compensation. If I agree to it, that's the way it is. I have an obligation. They have an obligation.

I don't even read most reviews, unless there is a potential lawsuit on view.

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

In India, nobody sues anybody.

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.

I tremendously enjoy getting involved in a troubled situation and straightening it out... My interest would be if there was a situation that came up, and I thought I could do something with and the price was right, I would be interested.

They're making a song and dance because that serves their immediate interests. But what will happen tomorrow? They will have to pay salaries and pensions.

Neither the king nor any servant of his shall themselves cause a lawsuit to be begun, or hush up one that has been brought before them by some other man.

The tort system has correctly been called the lottery system.

The medical malpractice system is simply broken; … it comes too late, … it costs so much

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. Point out to them how the nominal winner is often a real loser -- in fees, expenses, and waste of time. As a peacemaker the lawyer has a superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.

Hawks usually care about benefits; doves most about costs. Neither benefits or costs however are easily estimated in advance.

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

Vince McMahon can end up in a federal lawsuit with you where there is mudslinging back and forth that makes the front page of 'The Wall Street Journal,' and if tomorrow he figures out a way where the company can benefit from your involvement, you will be at a negotiating table with him at lunch.

Anything that forces you to act at the possible harm of your own existence is going to exact a cost. You have to then think about, "Can I pay this? What will this mean to me - to my relationships, to my family, to everybody? What is this going to take? How much of me is this going to take?"

A tree fell on Greg Abbott - he sued and got millions.

The highest price we can pay for anything; is to ask it.

[Bill Clinton] gave - he settled a - he settled a sexual harassment case for $850,000 with Paula Jones in 1998.

On a good bargain think twice.

Everything has its price - and if that price is not paid, not that thing but something else is obtained... it is impossible to get anything without this price.