James Goldsmith Quotes

• If you see a bandwagon, it's too late.

  James Goldsmith

  Leadership, Motivation, Business

  "Sir James Goldsmith, Financier, Dies at 64" by Youssed M. Ibrahim, www.nytimes.com. July 20, 1997.

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• If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.

  James Goldsmith

  Funny, Inspiring, Money

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• When a man marries his mistress it creates a job opportunity.

  James Goldsmith

  Jobs, Work, Opportunity

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• Tolerance it a tremendous virtue, but the immediate neighbors of tolerance are apathy and weakness.

  James Goldsmith

  Tolerance, Weakness, Apathy

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• The ultimate risk is not taking a risk.

  James Goldsmith

  Courage, Risk, Ultimate

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• We (British) have reached the state where the private sector is that part of the economy the government controls and the public sector is that part that nobody controls.

  James Goldsmith

  Government, Economy, States

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• None has more frequent conversations with a disagreeable self than the man of pleasure; his enthusiasms are but few and transient; his appetites, like angry creditors, are continually making fruitless demands for what he is unable to pay; and the greater his former pleasures, the more strong his regret, the more impatient his expectations. A life of pleasure is, therefore, the most unpleasing life.

  James Goldsmith

  Life, Strong, Regret

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• Beauty is a social necessity.

  James Goldsmith

  Beauty, Social

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• The bigger the headquarters the more decadent the company.

  James Goldsmith

  Bigger, Headquarters, Company

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• When you marry your mistress, you create a job vacancy.

  James Goldsmith

  Love, Funny, Marriage

  "Marital fidelity? What a terribly common idea" by Emma Soames, www.theguardian.com. July 17, 2010.

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• Gossip columnists are diseases, like 'flu. Everyone is subject to them.

  James Goldsmith

  Humor, Gossip, Disease

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• Praise in the beginning is agreeable enough; and we receive it as a favor; but when it comes in great quantities, we regard it only as a debt, which nothing but our merit could extort.

  James Goldsmith

  Debt, Favors, Merit

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