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Sir James Michael Goldsmith (26 February 1933 – 18 July 1997), a member of the prominent Goldsmith family, was an Anglo-French financier, tycoon and politician.

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If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.

Funny, Inspiring, Money, Monkeys, Pay, Peanuts

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

Apathy, Neighbors, Tolerance, Tremendous, Weakness

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

Create, Funny, Job, Love, Marriage, Marry

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.

Creditors, Disagreeable, Life, Like, Regret, Strong

Beauty is a social necessity.

Beauty, Necessity, Social

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

Job, Jobs, Man, Mistress, Opportunity, Work

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.

Beginning, Debt, Extort, Favors, Merit

The ultimate risk is not taking a risk.

Courage, Risk, Taking, Ultimate

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

Bandwagon, Business, Leadership, Motivation, See

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.

British, Economy, Government, States

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

Disease, Diseases, Flu, Gossip, Humor, Subject

The bigger the headquarters the more decadent the company.

Bigger, Company, Decadent, Headquarters

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