James Goldsmith Quotes

#1. If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.

James Goldsmith

#2. When you marry your mistress, you create a job vacancy.

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#3. The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting of an old one.

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#4. 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.

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

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#6. The bigger the headquarters the more decadent the company.

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#7. When a man marries his mistress it creates a job opportunity.

James Goldsmith

#8. 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.

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#9. The ultimate risk is not taking a risk.

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#10. Beauty is a social necessity.

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

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

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