An Invisible Client Quotes

“We’re told by this system that you are the car you drive or the size of your house or the number in your bank account. We’re taught from an early age by advertising agencies that we’re only as good as the wealth we have. It isn’t true. We’re not their slaves. We’re people. We’re not numbers on a spreadsheet. We aren’t disposable if we don’t make enough. This is our country, not theirs.”
― Victor Methos, An Invisible Client

“Every dictator in history has made that same speech, Bob. Hitler thought he was fighting for the greater good, too. Isn’t it odd that the most defenseless always need to be the ones sacrificed for the greater good?”
― Victor Methos, An Invisible Client

“Remember one thing above anything else: if you say something confidently enough, people will believe you. Even if you’re wrong.”
― Victor Methos, An Invisible Client

“You’ll come to find as you get older that money loses its luster, and the only thing that matters are the people in your life.”
― Victor Methos, An Invisible Client

“Justice will not come until those who are not injured are as outraged as those who are. — Solon, 560 BC”
― Victor Methos, An Invisible Client

“There are monsters that hide themselves in broad daylight. Monsters that put on smiles, that might even shake your hand and call you their friend. There are monsters in this world that care nothing about goodness, or people, or the future. We used to search under our beds for monsters when we were young, but that’s not where they were. They were out in the open, pretending to be there to help us.”
― Victor Methos, An Invisible Client

“When you give up, it’s not yourself you hurt the worst. It’s everybody who cares about you.”
― Victor Methos, An Invisible Client

“You don’t seem like the type of guy who wouldn’t help if he could.”
― Victor Methos, An Invisible Client

“The world’s always been a mess. You can’t change that. You just have to straighten out your little corner of it.”
― Victor Methos, An Invisible Client

“Under Utah law, punitive damages were capped at two hundred fifty thousand dollars. Those were the damages meant to punish a company for unethical behavior. So if a corporation killed someone on purpose and buried the body, the most they could be fined in Utah was two hundred fifty thousand. It was no wonder that corporations were moving here in droves.”
― Victor Methos, An Invisible Client

“he didn’t understand me, and he didn’t understand that I would do whatever I had to.”
― Victor Methos, An Invisible Client

“Well,” he said, taking another puff off the pipe, “nothing’s written in stone.”
― Victor Methos, An Invisible Client

“Law school was a sham, but every student blindly believed in that sham. Schools didn’t teach anything lawyers would actually use; they proclaimed the law was a noble profession and couldn’t be sullied by teaching practicalities like marketing, sales, entrepreneurship, and client management. But the jig was up. Graduates had become less and less employable as the market flooded with lawyers, and law school applications were down nearly fifty percent from ten years ago. People were getting the message. Practicalities were the only things that really mattered.”
― Victor Methos, An Invisible Client

“The formula was simple. It was based on one that a judge named Learned Hand—his actual given name—had written in a legal opinion, probably unaware what the implications were. The food industry had run with it. Defects in food—bacterial infections, rot, mold, cross-contamination with allergens, exposure to toxic substances, and everything else that could go wrong—were discovered by manufacturers long before the general public knew. The manufacturer then had a decision to make: do we recall the food or not? Actuaries worked out death tables that predicted how many people would die or become ill because of the defect. They could determine how much money the average person who bought the product earned per year: that person’s earning capacity. Adding up the earning capacity of everyone who could potentially die or get sick because of the defect gave them an estimate of how much settlements would cost. Under the law, a consumer’s value equaled the amount of money that person could have earned in a lifetime, had he or she lived. If the calculation of damages in all the wrongful death lawsuits was greater than the cost of a recall, the manufacturer would recall the product. If the settlements would cost the company less than the recall, then they just ignored the defect. Damages > Profit = Recall”
― Victor Methos, An Invisible Client

“Food manufacturers have a formula to determine whether we should live or die.”
― Victor Methos, An Invisible Client

“EPILOGUE ABOUT THE AUTHOR Justice will not come until those who are not injured are as outraged as those who are. — Solon, 560 BC”
― Victor Methos, An Invisible Client

“Capitalism is a free exchange between two entities without the use of force. That’s not what we have anymore. The word for what we have is oligarchy. It means that we are ruled by a few powerful people. Our system is rigged, and the people who benefit are the richest corporations.”
― Victor Methos, An Invisible Client

“Since I was a kid, I’d held an unshakeable belief that if a person wanted something bad enough, the universe would provide it.”
― Victor Methos, An Invisible Client

“When you give up, it’s not yourself you hurt the worst. It’s everybody who cares about you. I would’ve hurt her worse than anyone’s ever hurt her in her life.”
― Victor Methos, An Invisible Client

“gave another copy to the judge. It was a 12(b)(6)”
― Victor Methos, An Invisible Client

“It’s not a good decision.” “Maybe not, but it’ll be my decision. Not my mother’s, not society’s, just mine. And if it’s a mistake, it’s my mistake.”
― Victor Methos, An Invisible Client

“I don’t think success or failure is the measure. It’s the trying. It’s doing your best to try and follow what you think is right.”
― Victor Methos, An Invisible Client

“That’s the beauty of poetry,” I said. “That language is inadequate to describe life. So poetry just tries to bring up emotions. Just read it and see how you feel. If you feel something, then the poem worked.”
― Victor Methos, An Invisible Client

“DUIs were big moneymakers for the city. The fines and fees paid by the defendants kept the city courts going and paid the salaries of the police officers and prosecutors on the cases.”
― Victor Methos, An Invisible Client

“You’re too young to remember, but doctors used to smoke in hospitals. Sometimes, they’d recommend it to patients. You can still see the ashtrays that are bolted into the walls at the U of U hospital. The cigarette companies were so powerful, they convinced doctors to poison their patients.”
― Victor Methos, An Invisible Client

“Doctors possessed a built-in animosity toward attorneys.”
― Victor Methos, An Invisible Client

“I always looked at the grass in front of buildings. When a property was struggling, they cut the landscaping budget first.”
― Victor Methos, An Invisible Client

“The law is like a big rusty ship. You can’t change its course without nearly destroying the ship in the process.”
― Victor Methos, An Invisible Client

“Living the bachelor life was too much of a gamble: wait too long for the right person, and you could end up alone.”
― Victor Methos, An Invisible Client

“what PI lawyers called “an invisible client”—one who lived and breathed but didn’t officially exist.”
― Victor Methos, An Invisible Client