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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As an emotional eater, I eat to soothe.
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I think that you get the mood of a song stronger if you get it right that way. On the other hand, you put some songs out live and they don't catch flight. They just flop. It is hard to tell until they are out there.
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At any one time there is a natural tendency among physicists to believe that we already know the essential ingredients of a comprehensive theory . But each time a new frontier of observation is broached we inevitably discover new phenomena which force us to modify substantially our previous conceptions. I believe this process to be unending, that the delights and challenges of unexpected discovery will continue always.
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It's not true that you fall in love only once in your life. But it is true that you only fall in love a certain way, with a certain absoluteness, once.
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The lens of contract focuses predominantly on gains from trade whereas orthodoxy is focused on resource allocation.
