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John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes

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Banking may well be a career from which no man really recovers  (John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes) Pundits forecast not because they know, but because they are asked  (John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes) Decision has greater virtue and force if taken after there has been eloquent dissent  (John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes) Technology means the systematic application of scientific or other organized knowledge to practical tasks  (John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes) Unemployment is rarely considered desirable except by those who have not experienced it  (John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes) Very important functions can be performed very wastefully and often are  (John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes) Men are, in fact, either sustained by organization or they sustain organization  (John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes) To add to the technostructure is to increase its power in the enterprise  (John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes) Educators have yet to realize how deeply the industrial system is dependent upon them  (John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes) The foresight of financial experts was, as so often, a poor guide to the future  (John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes) If inheritance qualifies one for office, intelligence cannot be a requirement  (John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes) 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 Quotes) A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance; but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books  (John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) We are becoming the servants in thought, as in action, of the machine we have created to serve us  (John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes) 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 Quotes) By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man  (John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes) 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 Quotes) In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability  (John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes) 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 Quotes) Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative  (John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes) Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not  (John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes) Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable  (John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes) 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 Quotes) There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting  (John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes) 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 Quotes) One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know  (John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes) Economics is a subject profoundly conducive to cliche, resonant with boredom. On few topics is an American audience so practiced in turning off it's ears and minds. And none can say that the response is ill advised  (John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes) Few can believe that suffering, especially by others, is in vain. Anything that is disagreeable must surely have beneficial economic effects  (John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes)
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