Top 25 Jimmy Hoffa Quotes (2024 Update)

Jimmy Hoffa Quote: “I may have my faults, but being wrong ain’t one of them.”

1. “I may have my faults, but being wrong ain’t one of them.”

— Jimmy Hoffa

Jimmy Hoffa Quote: “Rome wasn’t built in a day, but man, did they get a break on the labor.”

2. “Rome wasn’t built in a day, but man, did they get a break on the labor.”

— Jimmy Hoffa

Jimmy Hoffa Quote: “Don’t let any man into your cab, your home, or your heart, unless he’s a friend of labor.”

3. “Don’t let any man into your cab, your home, or your heart, unless he’s a friend of labor.”

— Jimmy Hoffa

Jimmy Hoffa Quote: “Run from a knife and rush a gun.”

4. “Run from a knife and rush a gun.”

— Jimmy Hoffa

Jimmy Hoffa Quote: “To the best of my recollection, I must recall on my memory, I cannot remember.”

5. “To the best of my recollection, I must recall on my memory, I cannot remember.”

— Jimmy Hoffa

Jimmy Hoffa Quote: “I’ve told you before and I’ll tell you again. The strong survive and the weak disappear. We do not intend to disappear.”

6. “I’ve told you before and I’ll tell you again. The strong survive and the weak disappear. We do not intend to disappear.”

— Jimmy Hoffa

Jimmy Hoffa Quote: “I don’t need a bodyguard.”

7. “I don’t need a bodyguard.”

— Jimmy Hoffa

Jimmy Hoffa Quote: “There are simply no public figures today who so challenge the elite business and government establishment and so champion the working class as Jimmy Hoffa did almost daily and with arrogance.”

8. “There are simply no public figures today who so challenge the elite business and government establishment and so champion the working class as Jimmy Hoffa did almost daily and with arrogance.”

— Jimmy Hoffa

Jimmy Hoffa Quote: “We never had any silk sheets in our family...”

9. “We never had any silk sheets in our family...”

— Jimmy Hoffa

Jimmy Hoffa Quote: “I do to others what they do to me, only worse.”

10. “I do to others what they do to me, only worse.”

— Jimmy Hoffa

Jimmy Hoffa Quote: “In the old days all you needed was a handshake. Nowadays you need forty lawyers.”

11. “In the old days all you needed was a handshake. Nowadays you need forty lawyers.”

— Jimmy Hoffa

Jimmy Hoffa Quote: “In the ten years I was president of the Teamsters, I had raised the membership from eight hundred thousand to more than 2 million and made it the largest single labor union the world.”

12. “In the ten years I was president of the Teamsters, I had raised the membership from eight hundred thousand to more than 2 million and made it the largest single labor union the world.”

— Jimmy Hoffa

Jimmy Hoffa Quote: “Hell, I’m not saying I’m an angel, but when it came to dirty tricks I couldn’t hold a candle to the Irish Mafia.”

13. “Hell, I’m not saying I’m an angel, but when it came to dirty tricks I couldn’t hold a candle to the Irish Mafia.”

— Jimmy Hoffa

Jimmy Hoffa Quote: “I’ve said consistently that no employer ever really accepts a union. They tolerate the unions. The very minute they can get a pool of unemployment they’ll challenge the unions and try to get back what they call managements prerogatives, meaning hire, fire, pay what you want.”

14. “I’ve said consistently that no employer ever really accepts a union. They tolerate the unions. The very minute they can get a pool of unemployment they’ll challenge the unions and try to get back what they call managements prerogatives, meaning hire, fire, pay what you want.”

— Jimmy Hoffa

Jimmy Hoffa Quote: “Power leads to more power, no matter what your racket, and not only were they rich and influential but they were smart as hell, too.”

15. “Power leads to more power, no matter what your racket, and not only were they rich and influential but they were smart as hell, too.”

— Jimmy Hoffa

Jimmy Hoffa Quote: “A slab of bread “buttered” with lard and, if you were lucky, seasoned with salt and pepper, was a luxury.”

16. “A slab of bread “buttered” with lard and, if you were lucky, seasoned with salt and pepper, was a luxury.”

— Jimmy Hoffa

Jimmy Hoffa Quote: “Mob guys had muscle, and where in hell do you think employers got the tough guys when they wanted to break a strike?”

17. “Mob guys had muscle, and where in hell do you think employers got the tough guys when they wanted to break a strike?”

— Jimmy Hoffa

Jimmy Hoffa Quote: “Sure, we loaned money to build hotels and casinos in Las Vegas. So what? Las Vegas borrowers were good customers.”

18. “Sure, we loaned money to build hotels and casinos in Las Vegas. So what? Las Vegas borrowers were good customers.”

— Jimmy Hoffa

Jimmy Hoffa Quote: “They all know I’m back, very much back, and that I will be the general president again come hell or high water.”

19. “They all know I’m back, very much back, and that I will be the general president again come hell or high water.”

— Jimmy Hoffa

Jimmy Hoffa Quote: “But to hear Kennedy when he was grandstanding in front of the McClellan Committee you might have thought I was making as much out of the pension fund as the Kennedys made out of selling whiskey.”

20. “But to hear Kennedy when he was grandstanding in front of the McClellan Committee you might have thought I was making as much out of the pension fund as the Kennedys made out of selling whiskey.”

— Jimmy Hoffa

Jimmy Hoffa Quote: “From 1955 until 1965 Jimmy Hoffa was as famous as Elvis Presley. From 1965 until 1975 Jimmy Hoffa was as famous as the Beatles.”

21. “From 1955 until 1965 Jimmy Hoffa was as famous as Elvis Presley. From 1965 until 1975 Jimmy Hoffa was as famous as the Beatles.”

— Jimmy Hoffa

Jimmy Hoffa Quote: “More apparent to Teamster members than any moral lapses were the tangible gains that had been steadily realized under Hoffa since his advent to power.”

22. “More apparent to Teamster members than any moral lapses were the tangible gains that had been steadily realized under Hoffa since his advent to power.”

— Jimmy Hoffa

Jimmy Hoffa Quote: “When you go to prison they forget it’s your Constitution, too.”

23. “When you go to prison they forget it’s your Constitution, too.”

— Jimmy Hoffa

Jimmy Hoffa Quote: “But because we are financially solid, because we do have an organization that is equipped to handle any situation that comes in front of us, we are successful in getting from the employers what are members want and need without strikes.”

24. “But because we are financially solid, because we do have an organization that is equipped to handle any situation that comes in front of us, we are successful in getting from the employers what are members want and need without strikes.”

— Jimmy Hoffa

Jimmy Hoffa Quote: “When you run an organization like the Teamsters one man has to be the boss and run things.”

25. “When you run an organization like the Teamsters one man has to be the boss and run things.”

— Jimmy Hoffa

Jimmy Hoffa Quote: “Our rooms were bugged, our phones were tapped, and our lawyer’s rooms were broken into and their files stolen. We finally had to hire armed guards with pistols to be able to maintain our records. It was hard to believe we weren’t in Russia.”

26. “Our rooms were bugged, our phones were tapped, and our lawyer’s rooms were broken into and their files stolen. We finally had to hire armed guards with pistols to be able to maintain our records. It was hard to believe we weren’t in Russia.”

— Jimmy Hoffa

Jimmy Hoffa Quote: “It has to be considered damned unusual that no other union was ever investigated.”

27. “It has to be considered damned unusual that no other union was ever investigated.”

— Jimmy Hoffa

Jimmy Hoffa Quote: “You almost had to live through it to really know the gut ripping misery of the depression during the early thirties which led to labor’s bloodiest and most violent days.”

28. “You almost had to live through it to really know the gut ripping misery of the depression during the early thirties which led to labor’s bloodiest and most violent days.”

— Jimmy Hoffa

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