Oliver E. Williamson Quotes
Vertical intergration is an organizational response to the contracting difficulties that attend intermediate product markets where trades that are supported by transaction-specific assets are exposed to hazard.
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Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of liberty, equality and fraternity. Their social ideal embodied in their religion denies them.
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As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.
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Man's idea of God, and a God's collusion, is an essential part of the equation to wage war.
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I tweeted once, and I still stick to this, that I would love to marry a Croatian girl. I want my children to speak Croatian first, and for them to do that, we need someone who speaks very good Croatian.
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People don't like to vote against something that's so incredibly popular.
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The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.
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You can't bank on the outcome.
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If I had had a chance to tour with Van Halen before the record, I think it would have been a different record.
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I have yet to see one completely unspoiled star, except for Lassie.
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I still can't believe I danced with Gene Kelly. How lucky am I that I've been in movies where I've danced with two of the greatest dancers of all time - with Gene Kelly and John Travolta.
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One in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a wage.
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Creative output, you know, is just pain. I'm going to be cliche for a minute and say that great art comes from pain.
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Why do you need to do a fancy cartwheel for before you hit him? It just looks stupid.
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If you have debt, you have to worry about it. I would challenge each of you to try to be debt-free.
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Pour a liquid out of its container, and it changes shape, fills the space you give it. If you give children a lot of space, it may surprise you where they'll go and the shape they'll take.
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Desire creates its own object.
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In Czechoslovakia in 1968, communist reformers appealed to democratic ideals that were deeply rooted in the country's pre-second world war past.
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I had studied Irish history. I had read speeches from the dock. I had tried to fuse the vivid past of my nation with the lost spaces of my childhood. I had learned the battles, the ballads, the defeats. It never occurred to me that eventually the power and insistence of a national tradition would offer me only a new way of not belonging.
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The creator does not create only for the pleasure of creating but . . . he also desires to subdue other minds.
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Wealth is the ultimate panacea to poverty.
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It was not intended as a compliment. It was a confession. Now that I have made it, something seems to have gone out of me. Perhaps one should never put one's worship into words.
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We start with our consumers and spend an exorbitant amount of time talking with them, trying to figure out what's driving them, finding out where they are and how they're changing things.
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I enjoy playing characters where the silence is loud.
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Vertical intergration is an organizational response to the contracting difficulties that attend intermediate product markets where trades that are supported by transaction-specific assets are exposed to hazard.
