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John Kenneth Galbraith Inspirational Quotes (217)

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It takes a certain brashness to attack the accepted economic legendsbut noneat all toperpetuatethem. So theyare perpetuated.
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In the conventional wisdom of conservatives, the modern search for security is regularly billed as the greatest single threat to economic progress.
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One of the little-celebrated powers of Presidents (and other high government officials) is to listen to their critics with just enough sympathy to ensure their silence.
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The years of the Great Depression were a superb time for economists because people not knowing what could be done or what should be done would always assume that maybe an economist had the answer. If you were just a lawyer in Washington, you were nobody. But if you were an economist, you might have the answer.
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I am for a close global association in trade and financial matters, rather than the opposite possibility of excessive nationalism, as manifested in the two world wars.
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Anyone who says he won't resign four times, will.
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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.
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Oligopoly is an imperfect monopoly. Like the despotism of the Dual Monarchy, it is saved only by its incompetence.
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In public administration good sense would seem to require that public expectation be kept at the lowest possible level in order to minimize eventual disappointment.
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If you're rich you can buy books. If you're poor, you need a library.
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In the world of minor lunacy the behaviour of both the utterly rational and the totally insane seems equally odd.
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Why is anything intrinsically so valueless so obviously desirable?
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Of all classes the rich are the most noticed and the least studied.
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There is a common tendency to ignore the poor or to develop some rationalisation for the good fortune of the fortunate.
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You will find that [the] State [Department] is the kind of organisation which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly too.
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In economics it is a far, far wiser thing to be right than to be consistent
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The more underdeveloped the country, the more overdeveloped the women.
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To add to the technostructure is to increase its power in the enterprise.
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If you feed enough oats to the horse, some will pass through to feed the sparrows (referring to trickle down economics).
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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.
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Writing is a long and lonesome business back of the problems in thought and composition hover always the awful questions: Is this the page that shows the empty shell? Is it here and now that they find me out?
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Very important functions can be performed very wastefully and often are.
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No society ever seems to have succumbed to boredom. Man has developed an obvious capacity for surviving the pompous reiteration of the commonplace.
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There are two kinds of forecasters: those who don’t know, and those who don’t know they don’t know.
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