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![The] men of the technostructure are the new and universal priesthood. Their religion is business success; their test of virtue is growth and profit. Their bible is the computer printout; their communion bench is the committee room Picture Quote #1](https://img.picturequotes.com/2/67/66742/66742.webp "The] men of the technostructure are the new and universal priesthood. Their religion is business success; their test of virtue is growth and profit. Their bible is the computer printout; their communion bench is the committee room Picture Quote #1")
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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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone (John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes)
It has been the acknowledged right of every Marxist scholar to read into Marx the particular meaning that he himself prefers and to treat all others with indignation (John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy (John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes)
The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor (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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
There's a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a billion dollars (John Kenneth Galbraith 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)
Wealth is not without it's advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive (John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes)
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 Quotes)
It is almost as important to know what is not serious as to know what is (John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes)
Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay (John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes)
Mr. David Stockman has said that supply-side economics was merely a cover for the trickle-down approach to economic policy-what an older and less elegant generation called the horse-and-sparrow theory: If you feed the horse enough oats, some will pass through to the road for the sparrows (John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes)
We now in the United States have more security guards for the rich than we have police services for the poor districts. If you're looking for personal security, far better to move to the suburbs than to pay taxes in New York (John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes)
It is my guiding confession that I believe the greatest error in economics is in seeing the economy as a stable, immutable structure (John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes)
In the autumn of 1929 the mightiest of Americans were, for a brief time, revealed as human beings (John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes)
Men have been swindled by other men on many occasions. The autumn of 1929 was, perhaps, the first occasion when men succeeded on a large scale in swindling themselves (John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes)
Ideas are inherently conservative. They yield not to the attack of other ideas but to the massive onslaught of circumstance with which they cannot contend (John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes)
People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage (John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Emancipation of belief is the most formidable of the tasks of reform and the one on which all else depends (John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes)
The man who is admired for the ingenuity of his larceny is almost always rediscovering some earlier form of fraud. The basic forms are all known, have all been practiced. The manners of capitalism improve. The morals may not (John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes)
All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door. The violence of revolutions is the violence of men who charge into a vacuum (John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes)
Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man's greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source of anxiety. Over all history it has oppressed nearly all people in one of two ways: either it has been abundant and very unreliable, or reliable and very scarce (John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes)
Man, at least when educated, is a pessimist. He believes it safer not to reflect on his achievements; Jove is known to strike such people down (John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes)
The] men of the technostructure are the new and universal priesthood. Their religion is business success; their test of virtue is growth and profit. Their bible is the computer printout; their communion bench is the committee room (John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes)