James Goldsmith

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If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.
- James Goldsmith
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If you see a bandwagon, it's too late.
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When a man marries his mistress it creates a job opportunity.
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Tolerance it a tremendous virtue, but the immediate neighbors of tolerance are apathy and weakness.
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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
Collection: Government
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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
Collection: Life
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The bigger the headquarters the more decadent the company.
- James Goldsmith
Collection: Bigger
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The ultimate risk is not taking a risk.
- James Goldsmith
Collection: Courage
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Beauty is a social necessity.
- James Goldsmith
Collection: Beauty
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When you marry your mistress, you create a job vacancy.
- James Goldsmith
Collection: Love
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Gossip columnists are diseases, like 'flu. Everyone is subject to them.
- James Goldsmith
Collection: Humor
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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
Collection: Debt