Quotes About Business Contracts

#1. Language is material to shape and mold, not only a transparent or invisible medium for communication, business contracts, or telling stories.

Kenneth Goldsmith

#2. I think there's few cases in history where the C.E.O. steps down and is also the founder and reports to someone and that works.

Evan Williams

#3. What we have now is a situation where politicians get a whole bunch of money from mainly business interests. Then once they hold that office, they spend all their time in office paying back over and over again those campaign contributions through various favors and contracts and that sort of thing.

Matt Taibbi

#4. The range of derivatives contracts is limited only by the imagination of man (or sometimes, so it seems, madmen). Say you want to write a contract speculating on the number of twins to be born in Nebraska in 2020. No problem-at a price, you will easily find an obliging counterparty.

Warren Buffett

#5. Yet the ink on the page was ancient, faded. (...) Fresh iron-gall ink was as black as Beelzebub's beards.

Karen Maitland

#6. Everyone in the entertainment business gets crappy contracts when we start out, and into the middle of our careers. It's the nature of the business.

J. Michael Straczynski

#7. Let me tell you, it's a lot easier to raise money for a governor. They have all kinds of business to hand out, road contracts, construction jobs, you name it.

Terry McAuliffe

#8. It seems superfluous to constrain trading in some of the newer derivatives and other innovative financial contracts of the past decade. The worst have failed; investors no longer fund them and are not likely to in the future.

Alan Greenspan

#9. This is not a change of career for me. Just an expansion of it. I have contracts and obligations and business partners who are counting on me. And I would only want to do another movie if it's as good as this one.

Claudia Schiffer

#10. As a business owner don't think your limitations, think business; it's all about business.

Vernita Naylor

#11. Contract law is essentially a defensive scorched-earth battleground where the constant question is, if my business partner was possessed by a brain-eating monster from beyond spacetime tomorrow, what is the worst thing they could do to me?

Charles Stross

#12. I have long-range plans, but you always have to wait for business to catch up with you. It's a matter of contracts and meetings catching up with your ideas of what you want to accomplish in life.

Rex Smith

#13. The bag I wanted was beyond reason - something to hold my poems, twice as big as the universe and it must be androgynous.

Eileen Myles

#14. To try and stand outside the marriage, I'd say we have complementary capabilities. I do the hustling and the business. I do more script reading. I handle contracts.

Hume Cronyn

#15. Every great man is a unique. The Scipionism of Scipio is precisely that part he could not borrow.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#16. In the end, it is your responsibility to read the small print, whether it is for gig contracts, record contracts, investors, management, booking agents, or anything else. You can blame everyone else for your mistakes, but when you make them, you end up being the one who has to pay.

Loren Weisman

#17. No matter how much technology changes scouting, no matter how much free agency and big TV contracts change the business of baseball, I hope and pray that the heart of the game will never change.

Pat Gillick

#18. When you're 'recruiting' people in temporary positions for the firm (short-term contracts, free-lancers, etc.) treat them well: remember, they're the only ones who actually do any work.

Corinne Maier

#19. Life is always bringing unexpected gifts.

May Sarton

#20. I have always been an honest trader. I come from a school of traders where there was honour in the deal. No contracts, just a handshake and that's it, done. That's the way I prefer to do business but it's not always possible these days, sadly.

Alan Sugar

#21. Business in Russia was not being done like in the West, with contracts. In Russia, hundreds of millions of dollars were going forward and backward by word of mouth.

David Reuben

#22. Right now, more people enjoy movies, music, television and movies than they do video games.

J Allard

#23. I was in drama, wanted to be an actor.

Joan Jett

#24. When, through synthetic work, about which we shall have more to say, a certain union has been established between two psychological phenomena, the presence of one is enough to cause the other to start in the mind also.

Anonymous

#25. The blues ain't nothing but a good man feelin' bad.

Leon Redbone

#26. I have great admiration for the way the Americans do business. They drive a hard bargain, but once they do it, they stick to their contracts.

Raghav Bahl

#27. No one can have a peaceful life who thinks too much about lengthening it.

Seneca The Younger

#28. When government taxes and regulates, what is seen are the visible effects of government contracts, grants, and subsidies. What is not seen are all of the property, business, and jobs that would have been created if citizens were left with the right to choose.

John Pugsley

#29. As a beat reporter covering the CIA and intelligence world after the terrorist attacks of 2001, I could sense that many things I couldn't see or understand were changing, expanding, getting so big they were difficult to manage.

Dana Priest

#30. An author who gives a manager or publisher any rights in his work except those immediately and specifically required for its publication or performance is for business purposes an imbecile.

George Bernard Shaw