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A good businessman never makes a contract unless he's sure he can carry it through, yet every fool on earth is perfectly willing to sign a marriage contract without considering whether he can live up to it or not.

That's what happens in the world. You get offered superior contracts.

A man's 'original and natural right' to make all contracts that are 'intrinsically obligatory,' and to coerce the fulfillment of them, is one of the most valuable and indispensable of all human possessions.

There are certain vulnerabilities and insecurities that go along with not being linked to another person in a contractual way, even if it's an unspoken contract. People in New York manage that pretty well. I prefer choice and desire over convention and limitation.

I don't care if you will get angry with me, but I am not open to a compromise. Contractualization must go. It is anti-people.

Simple logic dictates that if you cannot even conceive the possibility of leaving a negotiation, then it is preferable never to enter one.

The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.

Success isn't always going to be a huge contract; success is going to be if you just live out your purpose in life.

So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.