Sir James Goldsmith

“If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.”

“A man who marries his mistress creates a vacancy.”

“What is the point of being a billionaire if you cannot have your own way?”

“Global free trade is a brutal and immoral creed, which is consigning whole communities to the scrap heap.”

“A modern economy is a dynamic economy. And a dynamic economy is one that is in a permanent state of change and flux.”

“We have been taught to believe that the nation-state is obsolete. That was a lie.”

“I am not an asset stripper. I am a corporate revitalizer.”

“The establishment is a maze of corridors and lobbies and smoke-filled rooms, of secret handshakes and nods and winks.”

“Change is a painful process. But it is a necessary one.”

“Debt is a wonderful servant but a terrible master.”

“The purpose of industry is to create wealth for the nation as a whole, not just for the shareholders.”

“You don't get rich by doing what everyone else is doing.”

“The single most important factor for a country's success is its culture.”

“Leadership is the ability to get other people to do what you want them to do, and like it.”