Oliver E. Williamson Quotes
The field of 'economics and organization' is still young and needs support. I have been a chaired professor much of my academic life and know that such chairs are important for recruiting and retaining faculty.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
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I believe in the institution of marriage and it's like a tag to cement the relationship for your friends, family and public.
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My favorite film is probably the finale - 'Deathly Hallows: Part 2'.
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There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
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There is total unanimity that the most serious threat facing the United States and Israel is a nuclear-armed Iran.
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I endeavour to read more, be more informed on gay rights. Whatever floats your boat is my outlook. It's hard enough to be happy without having legislation against you, too.
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In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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Great amount of scientific research is there to show that health is better because transcendental meditation deals with consciousness, and consciousness is the basic value of all the physical expressions. The entire creation is the expression of consciousness.
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There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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I'm still learning how to do things - like lining my eyes? Forget it.
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I don't weigh into politics.
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I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
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Climate change is obviously happening and there is obviously a man-made contribution.
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I've come to learn that the determined and gifted and genuine sociopath has far more power to deceive than we realize.
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In a city, it's very hard to do a restaurant, an avant-garde-cuisine restaurant, where each year you need to change the whole menu.
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There are a lot of people who helped make Queen Latifah who she is today. I don't forget, but a lot of people do and get big heads.
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There can never be success without happiness, and no man can be happy without dispensing happiness to others.
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If you look at art history, at Goya or Gainsborough, it's always about acknowledging the people of your time who have influence.
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It is one and the same Avatara that, having plunged into the ocean of life, rises up in one place and is known as Krishna, and diving again rises in another place and is known as Christ.
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I am very rich because of 'Chic' - artistically as well as spiritually. It's been an amazing life.
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The field of 'economics and organization' is still young and needs support. I have been a chaired professor much of my academic life and know that such chairs are important for recruiting and retaining faculty.
