Quotes About Contracts

Thoroughly read all your contracts. I really mean thoroughly.

If you sell the film rights to your book, it doesn't mean there will be a film. I have sold the rights to five books and had zero films made. Take the money and be thankful.

I spend more time with Gucci [Mane] or Birdman than 300, but all this is just family. Who cares [about] contracts?

3. ALWAYS LEAVE BOTH SIDES AN OUT. Nothing lasts forever, especially business partner- ships. A dear friend of mine spent two years wrestling with a former partner when he left in a huff. In the end, everyone loses. Make sure you have a well-defined clause that lets either party leave without wrecking the business.

In other words, are humans fundamentally social animals who strive hard to carve out room for their individuality, or are they individuals who form social contracts?

What a lousy world, even Lucifer has to resort to the small print.

Politicians attend dinners at hotels with contractors. Bankers discuss interest rates at lunch.

The animated books pay the lowest rates at the Big Two and you can forget about royalties.

Rather than let their product compete fully and fairly in the marketplace, FalconStor resorted to bribery and graft to win important contracts in a scheme that reached the highest levels of the company.

I look back at all the contracts I've had, and I never assumed I would get another one. Honestly. I don't take anything for granted. Nothing.

Ever since I managed with guaranteed contracts and all the media, you know, you can get distracted by fame and fortune. Your values can get distorted. And the way you break through is, you just keep it personal and keep it simple and basic.

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.

The common wealth has been used to build highways, develop the Internet and the satellite system, uphold the banking system, regulate the stock market, and support the court system, which guarantees contracts. No business functioning in the market could exist

Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

In 1989, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that minority set-aside programs in municipal contracts were unconstitutional. The court wondered if there were proof that people of color even want to receive municipal contracts.

Government has three primary functions. It should provide for military defense of the nation. It should enforce contracts between individuals. It should protect citizens from crimes against themselves or their property.

A lot of people can't say that they've got three contracts in this league.

Employment is a contract between an employer and an employee. Thus, laws prohibiting discriminatory pay are an infringement on private contracts.

We protected Andre Johnson, given him long-term contracts. Brian Cushing's got a long-term contract. Arian Foster. So certain key players, core players, we've tried not to tie them up for a long period of time.

There's so much of this thing now, where you're supposed to do all the work before you get the commission. I think it's really good to try to resist that. If you just have a week to come up with a pitch for something, your ideas aren't going to be very good. Get your income from somewhere else, and keep your writing not tied into these contracts.

Every time I release an album my old record company releases another one.

Su defensa de la sociedad civil, de la democracia y de la libertad política, ignoró una pieza clave de la doctrina liberal, aquella que había revelado Adam Smith: que sin libertad económica y sin una garantía legal firme de la propiedad privada y de los contratos, la democracia política y las libertades públicas están siempre mediatizadas.

El efecto práctico de esta creencia es el socialismo (que Hayek identifica con la planificación económica y el dirigismo estatista), un sistema que, para imponerse, necesita la abolición de la libertad, de la propiedad privada, del respeto de los contratos, de la independencia de la justicia y la limitación de la libre iniciativa individual.

In other words, we are not writing a treatise on legislation or on the law of contracts or, for that matter, on the Constitution. Our subject is solely interpretation: how a legal message is to be received by those who must apply its directives.