All John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes
If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.
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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There's a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a billion dollars.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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Power is not something that can be assumed or discarded at will like underwear.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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We can safely abandon the doctrine of the eighties, namely that the rich were not working because they had too little money, the poor because they had much.
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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In the choice between changing ones mind and proving there's no need to do so, most people get busy on the proof.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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Few can believe that suffering, especially by others, is in vain. Anything that is disagreeable must surely have beneficial economic effects.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention, but it has no persuasive value at all.
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If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
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 enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.
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