James Goldsmith Quotes

I said that the only way I could have a band that would work in the format of my show is if the band were crap. So if I have a band they'd have to really suck.

Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over.

Pay your people the least possible and you'll get from them the same.

A whole set of values comes with fast food: Everything should be fast, cheap and easy; there's always more where that came from; there are no seasons; you shouldn't be paid very much for preparing food. It's uniformity and a lack of connection.

Expectations were pretty low and they are meeting them.

Plenty of people must also cause cheapness in wages, which cause cheapness in manufacture.

A lot of praise is given to very mediocre work. Critics have lost their taste, hearing, and eyesight.

If you want rubbish, you will get rubbish.

Where incompetence is prized, it is ever-present.

I was a server for a while, and I was a very bad one. So when people tipped me well, I felt like it was like, 'Let's get her out of here so she can get a new job.'

I don't get too much work to begin with, and whatever I get is mostly not good enough.

What you do for money you do badly.

Most movies aren't any good.

Academically, I was thick. School wasn't bad, but I was.

They set a low bar for Donald Trump, and he banged his head on it.

Over the years, America had become more like Wal-Mart. It had gotten cheap. Prices were lower, and wages were lower. There were fewer union factory jobs and more part-time jobs as greeters.

I was never offered enough, and that's the truth.

It wouldn't be the worst thing if you don't play that well but take points.

Don Henley is real fallback for awfulness.

I find it incredibly annoying going to every race to finish seventh, or even fifth.

I've had some bad gigs, don't get me wrong.

I never saw the light of day at Bouley. I remember I would bring home a roll of toilet paper a week because we got paid so little, if at all.

I'm kind of a bottom-of-the-barrel guy.

If you're making $10 an hour and you're doing your job and you're doing it well and your check is consistently $8.75 an hour, who wouldn't stand up for themselves?

The fans want a nice game, and when not everything goes so well, they have every right to boo.