All John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes
The great dialectic in our time is not, as anciently and by some still supposed, between capital and labor; it is between economic enterprise and the state.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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Meetings are a great trap. Soon you find yourself trying to get agreement and then the people who disagree come to think they have a right to be persuaded. However, they are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
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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People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy.
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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Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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Economics is a subject profoundly conducive to cliche, resonant with boredom. On few topics is an American audience so practiced in turning off its ears and minds. And none can say that the response is ill advised.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.
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Politics
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Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.
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Government
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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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The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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