John Kenneth Galbraith
Quotations
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“The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.” -John Kenneth Galbraith
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“War remains the decisive human failure.” -John Kenneth Galbraith
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“There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth.” -John Kenneth Galbraith
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“All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.” -John Kenneth Galbraith
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“By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man.” -John Kenneth Galbraith
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“In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.” -John Kenneth Galbraith
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“There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.” -John Kenneth Galbraith
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“The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself.” -John Kenneth Galbraith
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“The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled.” -John Kenneth Galbraith
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“All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.” -John Kenneth Galbraith
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“Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.” -John Kenneth Galbraith
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“In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability.” -John Kenneth Galbraith
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“All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.” -John Kenneth Galbraith
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“It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state.” -John Kenneth Galbraith
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“Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.” -John Kenneth Galbraith
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“Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom.” -John Kenneth Galbraith
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“More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.” -John Kenneth Galbraith
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“Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.” -John Kenneth Galbraith
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“In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability.” -John Kenneth Galbraith
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“War remains the decisive human failure.” -John Kenneth Galbraith
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“Meetings are indispensable when you don’t want to do anything.” -John Kenneth Galbraith
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“There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.” -John Kenneth Galbraith
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“Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.” -John Kenneth Galbraith
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In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone. – John Kenneth Galbraith
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By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man. – John Kenneth Galbraith
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