James Goldsmith quotes
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“If you see a bandwagon, it's too late.”
-- James GoldsmithSource : "Sir James Goldsmith, Financier, Dies at 64" by Youssed M. Ibrahim, www.nytimes.com. July 20, 1997.
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“Tolerance it a tremendous virtue, but the immediate neighbors of tolerance are apathy and weakness.”
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“The ultimate risk is not taking a risk.”
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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.”
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“The bigger the headquarters the more decadent the company.”
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“When a man marries his mistress it creates a job opportunity.”
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“Gossip columnists are diseases, like 'flu. Everyone is subject to them.”
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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.”
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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.”
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“When you marry your mistress, you create a job vacancy.”
-- James GoldsmithSource : "Marital fidelity? What a terribly common idea" by Emma Soames, www.theguardian.com. July 17, 2010.
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