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John Kenneth Galbraith Inspirational Quotes (217)

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The questions that are beyond the reach of economics-the beauty, dignity, pleasure and durability of life-may be inconvenient but they are important.
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I accept the global complex and global trade more than do some of my liberal colleagues because I consider this a wise alternative to national tension and conflict.
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Power is as power does.
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I think without a doubt, that what is called financial genius is merely a rising market.
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Only men of considerable vanity write books consistently therewith, I worried lest the world were exchanging an irreplaceable author for a more easily purchased diplomat.
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Economics exists to make astrology look respectable.
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I predict, not because I know, but because I'm asked.
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Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.
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The Senate has unlimited debate in the House, debate is ruthlessly circumscribed. There is frequent discussion as to which technique most effectively frustrates democratic process.
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Financial operations do not lend themselves to innovation. What is recurrently so described and celebrated is, without exception, a small variation on an established design . . . The world of finance hails the invention of the wheel over and over again, often in a slightly more unstable version.
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Genius is a rising stock market.
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No grant of feudal privilege has ever equaled, for effortless return, that of the grandparent who bought and endowed his descendants with a thousand shares of General Motors or General Electric.
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The spirit should never grow old.
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In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.
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Foreign policy is conducted for the convenience and enjoyment of people in Washington.
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I was brought up in southwestern Ontario where we were taught that Canadian patriotism should not withstand anything more than a five-dollar-a-month wage differential. Anything more than that and you went to Detroit.
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Of all the mysteries of the stock exchange there is none so impenetrable as why there should be a buyer for everyone who seeks to sell.
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There was something superficial in attributing anything so awful as the Great Depression to anything so insubstantial as speculation in common stocks.
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There's no question that in my lifetime, the contrast between what I called private affluence and public squalor has become very much greater.
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The sense of responsibility in the financial community for the community as a whole is not small. It is nearly nil.
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There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.
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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.
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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.
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Nothing so denies a person liberty as the total absence of money.
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