James Goldsmith Quotes & Sayings

The ultimate risk is not taking a risk. — James Goldsmith

When you marry your mistress, you create a job vacancy. — James Goldsmith

When a man marries his mistress it creates a job opportunity. — James Goldsmith

If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys. — James Goldsmith

Gossip columnists are diseases, like 'flu. Everyone is subject to them. — James Goldsmith

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

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

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

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

Beauty is a social necessity. — James Goldsmith

The bigger the headquarters the more decadent the company. — James Goldsmith

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

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. — James Goldsmith