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John Kenneth Galbraith
John Kenneth Galbraith
American Economist
Born: Oct 15, 1908
Died: Apr 29, 2006
Economics Few Great People Politics You
Related authors: Alan Greenspan Herbert A. Simon Milton Friedman Paul A. Volcker Peter Navarro Richard Thaler Robert Reich Thomas Sowell
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
Politics Man Conservative Superior Philosophy Moral Moral Philosophy Exercises Selfishness Modern Justification Engaged Search Oldest
The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable. John Kenneth Galbraith
Respectable Astrology Only Economic Look Make Function
Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists. John Kenneth Galbraith
Economics Extremely Economists Employment Form Useful
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
Mind Busy Changing Everyone Proof Faced Almost Almost Everyone Between Proving Gets Choice Need
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
Nature Achievement Gesture Market Corporation Individual Executive Himself Frequently Salary Chief Chief Executive Personal Warm Large Award
The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking. John Kenneth Galbraith
Job Thinking Protect Conventional Us View Painful Serve
Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence. John Kenneth Galbraith
Finance Intelligence Wealth Cases Most Improbable Convey Aspect Even
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
People Mind Busy Changing Proof Between Most Proving Get Choice Need
Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything. John Kenneth Galbraith
You Business Meetings Indispensable Want Anything
Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory. John Kenneth Galbraith
Politics Memory Nothing Admirable Short Short Memory
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
Heart Old Wrinkles Our Must Spirit Brow Never Written Them Should Grow
More die in the United States of too much food than of too little. John Kenneth Galbraith
Food Too Much Too States More Than Die Little Much United United States
In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes. John Kenneth Galbraith
Power Corrupts Corrupts Power Expectation States Though United United States
In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone. John Kenneth Galbraith
Alone Great Organization Great Organization Wrong Majority Safer Than Any Far Right
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
Time Leadership Great People Anxiety Else Characteristic Willingness Great Leaders Had Leaders Major Unequivocally Essence Common Confront Much
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
Diplomacy Few Nothing Rules No Exception Exception Safely Talks Concluded Were Accomplished Official Reports Useful
The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled. John Kenneth Galbraith
Money Simple Mind Repelled Banks Process Which Create
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
Life Wrong Also Comfort Comfortable Comfortably Verily Afflict Afflicted Happily Should Even
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
Freedom People Criticism Laziness Extreme Latter Terminal Academic Cherished Cover Being Literary Literary Criticism Either Inadequacy Cerebral Much Aspect Specialization Whom Grave
Of all classes the rich are the most noticed and the least studied. John Kenneth Galbraith
Rich Classes Studied Most Least Noticed
One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know. John Kenneth Galbraith
Wisdom You Economic Know Pieces Greatest
In economics, the majority is always wrong. John Kenneth Galbraith
Economics Wrong Majority Always
A person buying ordinary products in a supermarket is in touch with his deepest emotions. John Kenneth Galbraith
Emotions Touch Supermarket His Person Ordinary Products Deepest Buying
There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting. John Kenneth Galbraith
Beauty Absolute Pursuit Makes Precisely Interesting Certainly Standard
Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not. John Kenneth Galbraith
Money Important Those Equally Mistress Being Automobile Who Differs
Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted. John Kenneth Galbraith
People Beginning Few Nineteenth Nineteenth Century Tell Few People Wanted Them Century Needed
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