Quotes About Contracts

We owe it to American taxpayers to make sure that contracts intended for small businesses go to small businesses.

Homeowners can't use bankruptcy to reorganize their mortgage loans, because the banks have engineered the bankruptcy laws to prohibit this. Young people can't use bankruptcy to reorganize their student loans, because the banks have barred it. But big businesses now routinely use bankruptcy to renege on contracts with their workers.

Companies are not citizens. They are bundles of contracts. The purpose of companies is to play the economic game as aggressively as possible. The challenge for us as citizens is to stop them from setting the rules. Keeping supercapitalism from spilling over into democracy is the only constructive agenda for change. All else, as I shall make clear, is frolic and detour.

When large corporations have disproportionate power—not only over what's sold, but also over the rules for deciding what contracts are permissible and enforceable by law—those who are relatively powerless have no choice. The "free market" is not, in this sense, free. It offers no practical alternative.

In the vocabulary of options traders, writing means selling.

We don't rent pigs.

Flexibility' is the slogan of the day, and when applied to the labour market it augurs an end to the 'job as we know it', announcing instead the advent of work on short-term contracts, rolling contracts or no contracts, positions with no in-built security but with the 'until further notice' clause.

Many of the mainstream agricultural scientists, especially at the agricultural schools, but at all of our major universities, are tied into all sorts of contractual relationships and consulting relationships with the life science companies.

To be candid with you, free agency hurts all sports. It's great for athletes making an enormous amount of money. But to say it helps the sports, I don't believe that.

Much of the speech we do is largely meaningless and is just meant to communicate and validate small emotional contracts.

It was an era of expansion, but also of plunder. Bribery secured public contracts and the contractor then overcharged the state,

Kindle Singles is publishing on skates. It prints like lightning; our book meets readers in hours. I've spent so many years waiting for publishers to consider whether they wanted to print a book of mine, making contracts, taking months to fit it into the Fall list or the Spring list, fitting it into an advertising plan.

I believe you should have a world where you've got to license something at a fair price.

Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts.

Corporations are created by the people, acting through their governments. We grant them corporate charters that confer certain legal rights and privileges, like the ability to enter into contracts, limited liability and perpetual life.

Pro basketball is a very mercenary endeavor.

Many musicians will say they don't care about the money yet they must commit themselves to appear at given times and places, and to produce what sells, whether they believe in it or not. It depends on contracts.

Even if actors ask for more money, will producers fulfill their demands? They might just show us the door.

Why is it that the producers can do anything and get away with it, and the actors are held accountable for everything? The makers often stop actors' payments, too. Everything is in their favour in the contract.

The ability of players to jump teams when their contracts are up has hurt fan loyalty.

It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools.

This fierce defender of private property—this man for whom contracts were to be sacred covenants—expressly denied the sanctity of any agreement that stripped people of their freedom.

Just give me 25 guys on the last year of their contracts; I'll win a pennant every year.

Sporting goods companies pay me not to endorse their products.