I don’t understand this irony – valuable things like cars, gold, diamond are made up of hard materials but most valuable things like money, contracts and books are made up of soft paper.

This is the cost we pay to secure contracts. It’s a pass-through cost.

I don’t sign contracts for my books.

We have signed contracts with several counties and that’s a step that’s required.

If a person is infected with a human influenza and also contracts avian influenza … the two kinds of influenza could mix and re-assort themselves into a more dangerous strain that could cause easy human-to-human...

Along with the standard computer warranty agreement which said that if the machine 1) didn’t work, 2) didn’t do what the expensive advertisements said, 3) electrocuted the immediate neighborhood, 4) and in fact failed entirely...

Contracts are awarded based on merit, based on qualifications, based on experience and performance under our administration.

You’re absolutely right. Contracts can vary. Rates can vary. Pays can vary. … Only in the area of retiree health benefits has the Legislature spoken.

What you have is a payoff when there’s poor performance. But that’s the nature of contracts. There’s such a tremendous risk these days with being a CEO of a major corporation.

When you feel weak in spirit, think about the agreements you made with yourself about how to live an honourable life. We all have them, but unfortunately the contracts are often written in invisible ink...

if my business partner was possessed by a brain-eating monster from beyond spacetime tomorrow, what is the worst thing they could do to me?

We are working on three documents – two contracts [on gas transit and deliveries] and an underlying intergovernmental protocol for 2006.

Even one year is still excessive. In most employment contracts, trial periods are from one to six months.

The only chains you should wear in life are the chains of commitment.

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.

I didn’t sign any contracts, and I didn’t see any oil.

As further contracts are let, as further funds are released over the next several months, then we can review in some detail the circumstances, the changed circumstances for different countries.

He’s creative. He finds ways to get contracts done.

When God makes a covenant with us, God says: ‘I will love you with an everlasting love. I will be faithful to you, even when you run away from me, reject me, or betray me.’...

I’m not certain what it means going forward. My understanding is the acquisition includes all existing contracts.