Oliver E. Williamson Quotes

Opportunism is self interest seeking with guile often involving subtle forms of deceit, especially calculated efforts to mislead, distort, disguise, obfuscate, or otherwise confuse. This vastly complicates the problems of economic organisation. Plainly if it were not for opportunism all behaviour could be rule governed

Oliver E. Williamson

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• I believe every era has its significance and the same holds true for players and coaches.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Believe
  • True
  • Same

• Researchers looked at news programs on major broadcast and cable networks between 2008 and 2012 and found that of those labeled as domestic terrorists, 81% were identifiable as Muslims - this despite the fact that FBI reports from the period studied revealed that only 6% of domestic terrorist suspects were Muslim.

  

  Ibrahim Hooper
  • Period
  • News
  • Fact

• I don't work out but generally I am fit, which is why I don't work out.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Work
  • Fit

• Yes, I applied a lot of what I did in football to golf.

  

  Hale Irwin
  • Football
  • Golf
  • Yes

• Look at the Afghans, during the time of the Soviet invasion. They were among the poorest Muslims in the world, yet they were sustained by their faith in God, and God alone.

  

  Abu Bakar Bashir
  • Time
  • World
  • God

• When the 'New York Times' revealed the warrantless surveillance of voice calls, in December 2005, the telephone companies got nervous.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Voice
  • New
  • New York

• Gods always behave like the people who make them.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • People
  • Like
  • Always

• Italy advocates the adoption of a legal instrument on cultural diversity, guaranteeing every country the protection of its own historical identity and the uniqueness of its physical and intangible cultural heritage.

  

  Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
  • Country
  • Identity
  • Diversity

• 'Single' is usually applied to women as though they are a problem to be fixed.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Women
  • Single
  • Problem

• There's a lot of pressure on Broadway. There's this feeling that the show has to be a commercial success and the producers have to make their money back and Tonys and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Money
  • Success
  • Feeling

• I've gone down to the Jersey Shore every summer since I was born. It's like a second home, and Asbury Park is like the capital - it's the center of all of it. Musically, it's incredible.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Home
  • Summer
  • Down

• I would like to run for the mayor of the city of Chicago. That has always been an aspiration of mine even when I was in the House of Representatives.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • House
  • City
  • Chicago

• I have hair that looks like you could just take it off and plug a new style on.

  

  Kate Micucci
  • Style
  • Hair
  • Looks

• Once you get the right image the details aren't that important.

  

  Abbie Hoffman
  • Important
  • You
  • Details

• The important thing, once you get 'em laughing, is to keep 'em laughing until you're through. With a 90-minute feature, you've got to stop the laughter and then pick it up again, which is tough.

  

  Hal Roach
  • Up
  • Important
  • Stop

• Aging gracefully is about no heavy makeup, and not too much powder because it gets into the wrinkles, and, you know, to not get turtle eyelids and to not try to look young.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Look
  • Makeup
  • Aging

• When the prophets conceived Jehovah as the special vindicator of these voiceless classes it was another way of saying that it is the chief duty in religious morality to stand for the rights of the helpless.

  

  Walter Rauschenbusch
  • Religious

• Almost all of today's rich countries used tariff protection and subsidies to develop their industries. Interestingly, Britain and the USA, the two countries that are supposed to have reached the summit of the world economy through their free-market, free-trade policy, are actually the ones that had most aggressively used protection and subsidies.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • World
  • Today
  • Free

• I'm really addicted to water. I carry a bottle of water everywhere I go. I know people think I'm a nut.

  

  Andie MacDowell
  • People
  • Water

• It's just about being honest. I listen to a lot of stuff that's out there, some of which I wrote, and I'm like, 'Where is that? Where's the honesty?' So that's what I want to get to in my music now.

  

  Mike Posner
  • Music
  • Honesty

• I shall be so brief that I have already finished.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Finished
  • Brief

• Now the idea about taking people abroad is that if they come over to Cyprus, which we have in mind, and bring their families and would have the possibility to defect after they would be ready to speak their mind, well I hope so.

  

  Hans Blix
  • People
  • Mind
  • Hope

• Opportunism is self interest seeking with guile often involving subtle forms of deceit, especially calculated efforts to mislead, distort, disguise, obfuscate, or otherwise confuse. This vastly complicates the problems of economic organisation. Plainly if it were not for opportunism all behaviour could be rule governed

  

  Oliver E. Williamson