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Quotes About Contracts

Understanding my worth in the market is part of my job, and ensuring I am valued is important to me. I love negotiating, and do so frequently for contracts. I am fair and reasonable, but willing to walk away if a deal cannot be struck.
~ Tessa Virtue
So many land mines in this new territory called adulthood. Talent has a window. Freedom sometimes becomes a trap. We may die before we finish our dreams. Acutally, that we die is a pretty big surprise by itself. We can't spend innocence without accounting. Relationships are contracts. We partner not just for love but because we become too weak to make it alone.
~ Jardine Libaire
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
If you get 100 million streams on a song and you're only being paid on 20 percent, the check's not going to look good. The money's not going to look fair.
~ Jimmy Iovine
The standard publishing contract is replete with clauses that strip authors of control over their books.
~ Thomas Hauser
My strongest message is: 'Never give your songs away. Never sign a contract you can't get out of.'
~ Steve Miller
The contracts are structured different than athletes in America, but for me, it was good to move on and go back to playing in the premiere league, which is the best league. It was disappointing, as far as the team goes, but for me, there wasn't much I could do.
~ Claudio Reyna
I would love to see Bellator come up and offer an opportunity for competition. Then, fighters could negotiate contracts, and they would not be limited to having only one opportunity, one option, where you have to take what's given to you.
~ Ken Shamrock
There are many clever contractual ways to let a young player continue his career elsewhere while still having first option to bring them back in future. Contracts can include a buyback clause such as Barcelona had with Cesc Fabregas, or a sell-on clause where the development club benefit financially from all the work invested in the young player.
~ Eniola Aluko
Outreach appearances in the schools are usually part of my contracts, and I love doing them.
~ Danielle de Niese
The big print giveth and the small print taketh away.
~ Tom Waits
The large print giveth, but the small print taketh away.
~ Tom Waits
To regulate the flow of fieldworkers, the Bracero Program (Mexicans working on short-term contracts) was established in 1942 under an agreement between the US and Mexico.
~ Paul Theroux
This process of innovation is made possible by economic institutions that encourage private property, uphold contracts, create a level playing field, and encourage and allow the entry of new businesses that can bring new technologies to life. It should therefore be no surprise that it was U.S. society, not Mexico or Peru, that produced Thomas Edison, and that it was South Korea, not North Korea, that today produces technologically innovative companies such as Samsung and Hyundai.
~ Daron AcemoÄŸlu
Para ser inclusivas, las instituciones económicas deben ofrecer seguridad de la propiedad privada, un sistema jurídico imparcial y servicios públicos que proporcionen igualdad de condiciones en los que las personas puedan realizar intercambios y firmar contratos; además de permitir la entrada de nuevas empresas y dejar que cada persona elija la profesión a la que se quiere dedicar.
~ Daron AcemoÄŸlu
Marcus is reading a 256-page contract between the Every and a supplier of cobalt. This has been read by a number of company attorneys and outside consultants, but the attorneys miss a lot. Given the proliferation of auto-fill and AI in the legal profession, lawyers no longer know how to write. Some ninety percent of contract boilerplate is now generated by algos and AI, with only minor human intervention or augmentation. This can lead to ghastly problems.
~ Dave Eggers
When the Fed raises or lowers interest rates, for instance, then that affects the entire economy. Contracts or expands it.
~ David Baldacci
The investor with a long-term horizon begins with a portfolio composed entirely of risky assets. Then, as the investor's investment horizon contracts, the investor moves assets from high-risk to low-risk positions.
~ David F. Swensen
The way law stays alive is by remaining in touch with social contracts pieced together among real people on the ground.
~ Unknown
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
We can't say to a Ticketmaster venue that says they want to use a different ticketing platform, 'If you do that, we won't put shows in your building.'
~ Michael Rapino
I would tell a young Jadakiss, learn the game as much as you learn how to rap, as seriously you take a 16-bar verse, take every contract and every meeting and every opportunity to listen and learn, you know what I'm saying. Keep that at a parallel.
~ Jadakiss
I have a reputation in my professional work, negotiating contracts, where I've gone into deals where other people haven't closed the deal, and I've been able to get it done.
~ Keith Rothfus
Architects have created this fake separation between creation and execution. You can see it in architecture schools, where the students look down on going to contracts classes.
~ Joshua Prince-Ramus