#tracts

The biggest problems were to do with... well, to get that successful when you're so young, it attracts hangers-on, parasites, people who want to feed off you. ↗

— Mike Oldfield

#biggest #biggest problems #feed #get #off

A woman's flattery may inflate a man's head a little; but her criticism goes straight to his heart, and contracts it so that it can never again hold quite as much love for her. ↗

— Helen Rowland

#contracts #criticism #flattery #goes #head

I don't pitch for contracts. ↗

— Curt Schilling

#i #pitch

Business in Russia was not being done like in the West, with contracts. In Russia, hundreds of millions of dollars were going forward and backward by word of mouth. ↗

— David Reuben

#being #being done #business #contracts #dollars

An author who gives a manager or publisher any rights in his work except those immediately and specifically required for its publication or performance is for business purposes an imbecile. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#authors #business #contracts #publishers #publishing

I have made lots of mistakes in terms of contracts and spending money when I shouldn't have spent money. ↗

— Jenson Button

#i #lots #made #mistakes #money

Even in Britain, the trade unions tell me that employment contracts have less protection than in the past. ↗

— Jacques Delors

#contracts #employment #even #in the past #less

We think the managed security services opportunity is enormous and so we have been an active participant and probably the largest firm in this space outside of an IBM or EDS, which does large outsourcing contracts. ↗

— John W. Thompson

#been #contracts #does #enormous #firm

The better a work is, the more it attracts criticism; it is like the fleas who rush to jump on white linens. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#better #criticism #fleas #jump #like

Shoot, there's a committee to tell you everything at a record label. You definitely have to know who you are if you want to look like you at the end of the process. We've all seen people get record contracts, and by the time they're spit out by the machine, we don't even recognize them. ↗

— Gary Allan

#contracts #definitely #end #even #everything