I was lucky to get a professional contract. I wasn't that sort of talent that is considered to be a professional player.
When I got out of college and signed a contract to play pro football in the USFL, the first thing I bought was a Remington 1100 shotgun and a Remington .30-06.
I'm really lucky to be in the TV industry and to have a regular yearly contract. That gives me security.
Words contract a significance which clings to them long after the condition of things to which they owe it has passed away.
It is the work of fancy to enlarge, but of judgment to shorten and contract; and therefore this must be as far above the other as judgment is a greater and nobler faculty than fancy or imagination.
When I first signed a contract with a women's team, my contract stated that if I played, I would get 100 pounds, and if I didn't play, it would be zero.
If you are a single product company, then you are a contract company. But if you enter the retail market, then you have to be a multiple product company.
One grave and fundamental Keynesian error is to persist in regarding the interest rate as a contract rate on loans instead of the price spreads between stages of production. The former, as we have seen, is only the reflection of the latter.
On 'The Apprentice,' I'm 100 per cent certain I'm paid the same as Claude Littner. I insisted on equality when I negotiated my contract. I would not have allowed anything else.