Painterly gold fountain pen through a sealed parchment scroll beside a small lollipop on purple.

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Sam Beauregarde

Don't talk to me about contracts, Wonka, I use them myself. They're strictly for suckers.

— Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory  ·  1971

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What it means

Our interpretation.

Contracts get dismissed here as tools for the naive, spoken with the confident cynicism of someone who claims to know exactly how binding agreements are meant to be used against other people. It's a boastful jab dressed up as shared business wisdom.

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