CreativeFavourite Quotes

Lawyers & the professions
Richard SusskindYesterday's chargeable information services, formerly packaged as advice, are today's online marketing materials
Richard SusskindThe future for lawyers could be prosperous or disastrous. The arguments and findings in this book can support either end game
Richard SusskindI believe that lawyers, in order to survive and prosper, must respond creatively and forcefully to the shifting demands of what is a rapidly evolving legal marketplace
Samuel GoldwynA verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on
G K ChestertonEveryone knows the story of the solicitors' corps of volunteers who, when the Colonel on the battlefield criedCharge!all said simultaneouslySix-and-eightpence(Formerly the standard solicitors fee of the time)
J Pierpont MorganI don't want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do; I hire him to tell me how to do what I want to do
HofferIn times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists
Jilly CooperOccasionally a lawyer sends you a legal document covered in kisses, and you really think you're getting somewhere until he tells you he only wants you to sign your name in three places
Jilly CooperOn the whole, barristers are more interested in their briefs than a girls
Mark TwainOnly one thing is impossible for God: to find any sense in any copyright law on the planet
AnonThe best form of intellectual property protection - Rip off my ideas and I smasha your face
A P HerbertThe Common Law of England has been laboriously built up about a mythical figure - the figure ofThe reasonable man
Robert MorleyThe definition of a consultant: Someone who borrows your watch, tells you the time and then charges you for the privilege
TacitusThe more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws
Warren BennisThe soft stuff is a hellava lot harder than the hard stuff
Claire TrevorWhat a fuss there would be if people had to pay the minister as much to marry them as they have to pay a lawyer to get them a divorce
Robert MorleyWhen I asked my accountant if anything could get me out of this mess I am in now he thought for a long time and said: Yes, death would help