| "Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue." John Kenneth Galbraith Remarks |
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| A person buying ordinary products in a supermarket is in touch with his deepest emotions. John Kenneth Galbraith |
| 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 |
| Any consideration of the life and larger social existence of the modern corporate man begins and also largely ends with the effect of one all-embracing force. That is organization -- the highly structured assemblage of men, and now some women, of which he is a part. It is to this, at the expense of family, friends, sex, recreation and sometimes health and effective control of alcoholic intake, that he is expected to devote his energies. John Kenneth Galbraith Sayings |
| Commencement oratory must eschew anything that smacks of partisan politics, political preference, sex, religion or unduly firm opinion. Nonetheless, there must be a speech: Speeches in our culture are the vacuum that fills a vacuum. John Kenneth Galbraith Remarks |
| Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists. John Kenneth Galbraith Sayings |
| Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof. John Kenneth Galbraith |
| Few people at the beginning of the ninteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted. 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. John Kenneth Galbraith |
| I am not quite sure what the advantage is in having a few more dollars to spend if the air is too dirty to breathe, the water too polluted to drink, the commuters are losing out in the struggle to get in and out of the city, the streets are filthy, and the schools so bad that the young perhaps wisely stay away, and the hoodlums roll citizens for some of the dollars they saved in the tax cut. John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes |
| If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error. John Kenneth Galbraith Sayings |
| In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong. John Kenneth Galbraith Popular Quotes |
| In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone. John Kenneth Galbraith Adages |
| In economics, the majority is always wrong. John Kenneth Galbraith |
| 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 Sayings |
| 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 Adages |
| Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative. John Kenneth Galbraith |
| Many could forgo heavy meals, a full wardrobe, a fine house, et cetera; it is the ego they cannot forgo. John Kenneth Galbraith Remarks |
| Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything. John Kenneth Galbraith |
| Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue. John Kenneth Galbraith |
| More die in the United States of too much food than of too little. John Kenneth Galbraith Remarks |
| No society ever seems to have succumbed to boredom. Man has developed an obvious capacity for surviving the pompous reiteration of the commonplace. John Kenneth Galbraith Sayings |
| Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory. John Kenneth Galbraith |
| Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.' John Kenneth Galbraith Sayings |
| One of the best ways of avoiding necessary and even urgent tasks is to seem to be busily employed on things that are already done John Kenneth Galbraith Quotations |
| One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know. John Kenneth Galbraith |
| People fo privilage will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage. John Kenneth Galbraith Remarks |
| People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage John Kenneth Galbraith |
| Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes |
| Production only fills a void that it has itself created John Kenneth Galbraith |
| Several times I concluded that there was too much detail; always I returned to continue and enjoy the book. John Kenneth Galbraith |
| Technology means the systematic application of scientific or other organized knowledge to practical tasks. John Kenneth Galbraith Sayings |
| The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking. John Kenneth Galbraith |
| The drive toward complex technical achievement offers a clue to why the U.S. is good at space gadgetry and bad at slum problems. John Kenneth Galbraith Remarks |
| The ideas by which people . . . interpret their existence and in measure guide their behavior, were not forged in a world of wealth. John Kenneth Galbraith |
| The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith Remarks |
| The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable. John Kenneth Galbraith |
| The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled. John Kenneth Galbraith |
| 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 Sayings |
| The salary of the chief executive of the large corporations is not an award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm gesture by the individual to himself. John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes |
| There are a few ironclad rules of diplomancy but to one there is no exception. When an official reports that talks were useful, it can safely be concluded that nothing was accomplished. John Kenneth Galbraith Remarks |
| There are few ironclad rules of diplomacy but to one there is no exception. When an official reports that talks were useful, it can safely be concluded that nothing was accomplished. John Kenneth Galbraith |
| There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose. John Kenneth Galbraith Adages |
| There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting. John Kenneth Galbraith Popular Quotes |
| 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 Quotes |
| Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite. John Kenneth Galbraith |
| War remains the decisive human failure. John Kenneth Galbraith |
| Washington is a place where people praise courage and act on elaborate personal cost-benefit calculations. John Kenneth Galbraith |
| We are becoming the servants in thought, as in action, of the machine we have created to serve us John Kenneth Galbraith |
| We are becoming the servants in thought, as in action, of the machine we have created to serve us. John Kenneth Galbraith |
| 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 |
| What is called a high standard of living consists, in considerable measure, in arrangements for avoiding muscular energy, for increasing sensual pleasure and enhancing caloric intake above any conceivable nutritional requirement John Kenneth Galbraith Quotations |
| When people put their ballots in the boxes, they are, by that act, inoculated against the feeling that the government is not theirs. They then accept, in some measure, that its errors are their errors, its aberrations their aberrations, that any revolt will be against them. It's a remarkably shrewd and rather conservative arrangement when one thinks of it. John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes |
| Where humor is concerned there are no standards - no one can say what is good or bad, although you can be sure that everyone will John Kenneth Galbraith Remarks |
| Where humor is concerned there are no standards - no one can say what is good or bad, although you can be sure that everyone will. John Kenneth Galbraith |
| Wisdom itself is often an abstraction associated not with fact or reality but with the man who asserts it and the manner of its assertion John Kenneth Galbraith |
| You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too. John Kenneth Galbraith Quotations |
