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Oliver E. Williamson Quotes

Managerial discretion can take many forms, some very subtle. Individual managers may run slack operations; they may pursue subgoals that are at variance with corporate purposes; they can engage in self-dealing.

Oliver E. Williamson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: economist
Nationality: american
Birth: September 27, 1932

Topics

Run Engage Individual Pursue May

They had a contest where they would - for some reason, someone in the past loved musical theater, and so if you wrote a musical, they would fully fund it and put it on the main stage with full costumes and a set and everything, and my roommate said we should totally do that.

Andrew Sean Greer

Past Loved Someone You Said Reason

Low lights signal to our senses that the workday may be over and it's time for sleep, making it hard for an audience to pay careful attention. When we stand behind a big wooden podium, it can feel as if there's a shield between us and the audience.

John P. Kotter

Time Sleep Stand Feel Attention Pay

Playing for Barcelona's academy was a very important time for me and my career, as I learned a great deal here.

Mauro Icardi

Great Time Me Career Important Here

I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.

Jean-Michel Basquiat

Art Find Know Say Listen Critics

I am an open book, and I'm fine being me: I'm not a perfect person.

Tove Lo

I Am Me Book Perfect Person Open

My treatment ended in March/April of '08. It wasn't until the end of that summer that I started to feel I wasn't depressed. Even when I went on vacation to Saint Lucia, I was kind of depressed, even though it was such a beautiful place.

Robin Roberts

Beautiful Vacation End Feel Place

Scientific man is already on the moon, and yet we are still living with the moral concepts of Homer.

Michelangelo Antonioni

Man Moon Moral Living Concepts

It's one of those things where if I do a movie, I don't even know if I'm any good. So, I may do one and it sucks and I'm a horrible actor, and I'll never do another one.

Jason Aldean

Good Know Actor Never May Horrible

I don't want to be typecast as the 'ambient guy' or someone who only does electronic scores. I think most of the work that comes my way is because people feel they know me musically.

Cliff Martinez

Work People Me Think Feel Someone

Our songs aren't metaphorical, normally: they're literal in their interpretation.

Brad Paisley

Interpretation Literal Songs Our

I better be humble. I'm always checking myself.

Brian Ortega

Humble Myself Better Be Humble

I don't really believe in elegance. Ever since I first came to France many years ago to do the Chambre Syndicale course, I always felt I was somehow lacking, first of all being British - obviously a disaster! But I was also puzzled with this idea that you have to tie your Hermes scarf just right, or you can only wear black.

Suzy Menkes

Believe Black Elegance You Scarf