Oliver E. Williamson Quotes
The lens of contract focuses predominantly on gains from trade whereas orthodoxy is focused on resource allocation.
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When you're not under a 'series regular' contract, and other jobs come up, you try to juggle everything.
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Although China and United States are competitors, China and the United States are indeed partners in trade.
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The guys in my band buy instruments and sell and trade them. But if I have something I hang onto it. Everything is sentimental to me.
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One out of three jobs in Washington is tied to trade.
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If I recall correctly, I think I signed my first contract with Tor in 1983.
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Trade isn't about goods. Trade is about information. Goods sit in the warehouse until information moves them.
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I had no interest in being an actress what so ever, and when I was about 14 or 15, I was signed to a company in England. They owned a children's TV show which they put me in as a singer, and I was on the show for three years, and I left the show when I was 18 and started looking for a record contract.
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I think by now if people hire me, they know I'm going to improvise. I'm an improviser by trade.
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India's trade deficit is because of excess of import over exports.
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A family may be ruined by extravagance, but it is not always through ruin that the representatives in a family are to be found in humble or comparatively humble circumstances, but that the junior members of a gentle family went into trade.
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Would I have traded 'Homeland' for anything else? No. Would I trade 'Billions' for anything else? No.
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A free trade agreement can be a win-win for E.U. and India.
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Both France and Britain are supportive of India's bid for a broad-based agreement on trade and investment with the European Union.
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Pop flies, in a sense, are just a diversion for a second baseman. Grounders are his stock trade.
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A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.
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I am one day going to be working openly in the motion picture industry. When that day comes, I swear to you that I will never sign a term contract with any major studio.
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Food is a lens for culture.
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Economically, unfair trade will benefit nobody in the long run, as poorer countries will be bled totally dry and will become unable to produce anything.
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Fear and impatience demagnetize. Poise magnetizes.
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And not only did this great consolidated ecclesiasticism assume to lord it over men's earthly treasures, but they lorded it over men's minds, prescribing what men should think and read and write.
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I am a fashion designer, so I guess that makes me an overpacker.
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Waiting for your answer is one of the most painful things I have ever been through. At least let me know whether or not I hurt you.
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When I worked in the Department of Justice, in the office of the solicitor general, it was my job to argue cases for the United States before the Supreme court. I always found it very moving to stand before the justices and say, 'I speak for my country.'
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The lens of contract focuses predominantly on gains from trade whereas orthodoxy is focused on resource allocation.
