Top 144 Contracts Quotes

The Obama administration likes to say that it is ‘pro-worker.’ But something is amiss when its labor priorities are forcing unionization and labor contracts on American workplaces, and denying union members information on how their dues money is spent.

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

We had a heroic attitude to artistic freedom, and we thought normal contracts were a bit vulgar – somehow not punk. But that was the whole point – we weren’t a regular record label.

One goal of law – as we learn in law school from the first day of contracts – is to deter bad behavior.

My high school coach was Ray O’Conner. He has coached a lot of players that have signed professional contracts, and many of those have gone on to play in the major leagues.

Roads, better harnesses for horses, time-keeping devices, financial instruments like a currency that was recognized everywhere in the kingdom, enforceable contracts – all of this made commerce more appealing than plunder.

Arbitration clauses have become prevalent in most corporate agreements or contracts for employees.

It’s a little harder nowadays because of the way contracts are set up, the way the league is, to play with one team.

Now we know that, the way contracts are set up, it’s not really made for artists to get rich from selling records – that’s the company’s one shot to make money.

I’m really into both sides of the industry – in front of the camera and behind the camera. I love the business side of it; I love all of the contracts and negotiating and the different connections that you can make.

One of the market’s virtues, and the reason it enables so much peaceful interaction and cooperation among such a great variety of peoples, is that it demands of its participants only that they observe a relatively few basic principles, among them honesty, the sanctity of contracts, and respect for private property.

For me, I’ve been very lucky because of my relationship with Ring of Honor. I’m very close with everyone there, and that includes the guys that negotiate the contracts.

When I turned 16, my dad made me sign a contract – he made us sign contracts for everything – that if I hit my car, I would be responsible for paying for it. I was in bumper-to-bumper traffic, and I tapped someone. It was so not a big deal, but I had to pay for it.

Nigeria is still grappling with the negative consequences of the use of opacity by senior members of government and their cronies between 1993 and 1998, awarding themselves juicy contracts in the extractive industry.

A system of capitalism presumes sound money, not fiat money manipulated by a central bank. Capitalism cherishes voluntary contracts and interest rates that are determined by savings, not credit creation by a central bank.

I’m a trial attorney and I specialize in defense civil litigation. My firm represents businesses and organizations in whatever aspect they get sued, whether it’s commercial litigation, to personal injury, liability, contracts, we litigate for them on their behalf.

What matters is the team and all of us being focused on what we need to focus on, which is winning games, rather than contracts or any topics that can be a distraction. What matters is focusing on football.

I’ve lost jobs before; I’ve had contracts not renewed, and it didn’t get me down. I didn’t get upset; I just keep it moving. That has always been the case, and that will always be the case. You must look out for you.

If I found the right guy, I think I would get married. Maybe. I just feel like it’s just a contract. Why sign any more contracts, really?

The reason the contracts are so long is because actors are very spontaneous; we may want to do Shakespeare one day and be Porky Pig the next!

Outreach appearances in the schools are usually part of my contracts, and I love doing them.

The competitive pressure to produce, buy, and sell to our global multi-national companies is so intense that contractors in supply chains are motivated to pay low wages, intensify exploitative conditions, keep workers fearful with insecure work contracts, or simply sack workers who have formed a union to fight back.

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

My politics are food-related – food banks, the living wage, zero hour contracts – and my food is political.

I prayed about it, and I do believe that the Lord, at least in my life, likes to use one-year contracts and not long-term contracts.

Without law, without the social stability it provides, there can’t be contracts and deals, there can’t be chamber meetings, there can’t be good jobs and safe families.

Before I was elected to Congress, I helped to create the public corruption unit in the office of Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan. Unfortunately, business was good. Among the usual suspects were government contracts steered to insiders – leaving Illinois taxpayers holding the bag.

With those long American TV contracts you think, ‘yes, at the end of that I’d be rich.’ But at the same time you feel inside you a kind of death, because I enjoy playing lots of different characters.

Just as the web democratized publishing and development, Bitcoin can democratize building new financial services. Contracts can be entered into, verified, and enforced completely electronically, using any third-party that you care to trust, or by the code itself.

This is a pattern-bargaining industry, like railroads. You need to pay market to get a contract at all, and without contracts, you have a poor relationship with workers.

The league has been good to all of us in terms of what we get out of all these TV contracts and everything, so it would be a little disingenuous to complain too much. But if I had my way, we’d take a five-day break at Christmas. I mean it.

If you are identified with certain opinions and an ability to express them, and if you can build yourself an audience, a partisan fan base – measured through social media – then you are an official opinionator, monetizable through books, television contracts and the speaking circuit.

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.

The ball will tell you who the best players are, not the contracts, not the media.

We should have coaches who can produce results and even if we need to hire them on contracts, we should do that.

When the calamity we feared is already arrived, or when the expectation of it is so certain as to shut out hope, there seems to be a principle within us by which we look with misanthropic composure on the state to which we are reduced, and the heart sullenly contracts and accommodates itself to what it most abhorred.

Basically, managing is about influencing action. Managing is about helping organizations and units to get things done, which means action. Sometimes, managers manage actions directly. They fight fires. They manage projects. They negotiate contracts.

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.

If we open our history books, we shall see that the laws, for all that they are or should be contracts amongst free men, have rarely been anything but the tools of the passions of a few men or the offspring of a fleeting and haphazard necessity.

Prior to 2009, when publishers scoffed at the ebook market, they offered writers contracts which gave us half of the money they made off ebook sales.

The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts.

An awful lot of successful technology companies ended up being in a slightly different market than they started out in. Microsoft started with programming tools, but came out with an operating system. Oracle started doing contracts for the CIA. AOL started out as an online video gaming network.

You’re going to start seeing open-source, self-executing contracts gradually improve over time. What the Internet did to publishing, blockchain will do to about 160 different industries. It’s crazy.

People know more about baseball players’ contracts than they do about the policies that govern the fate of our children’s lives in twenty years. Think about it. People used to say, the whole time I was growing up, ‘Do you want to bring a child into this world?’ That’s pretty dire.

Consumers get used to reading and understanding their credit card contracts, their mortgages, their check overdraft agreements, those are good things. That puts power back in the hands of consumers.

The options and futures traded on exchanges are derivatives contracts.

For me, I don’t talk about numbers. I’ve had big contracts my whole career; I just don’t like talking about numbers if they’re real or not real… whatever offers I’ve had, I always keep it private.