James Goldsmith famous quotes

03-28-2025

If you see a bandwagon, it's too late.
-- James Goldsmith

#Business #Too Late #Bandwagon
Tolerance it a tremendous virtue, but the immediate neighbors of tolerance are apathy and weakness.
-- James Goldsmith

#Tolerance #Weakness #Apathy
If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.
-- James Goldsmith

#Money #Monkeys #Pay
The ultimate risk is not taking a risk.
-- James Goldsmith

#Courage #Risk #Ultimate
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
The bigger the headquarters the more decadent the company.
-- James Goldsmith

#Bigger #Headquarters #Company
When a man marries his mistress it creates a job opportunity.
-- James Goldsmith

#Jobs #Work #Opportunity
Gossip columnists are diseases, like 'flu. Everyone is subject to them.
-- James Goldsmith

#Humor #Gossip #Disease
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
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
Beauty is a social necessity.
-- James Goldsmith

#Beauty #Social
When you marry your mistress, you create a job vacancy.
-- James Goldsmith

#Love #Funny #Marriage

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