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John Kenneth Galbraith Inspirational Quotes (217)

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Men will look back in amusement at the pretence that once caused people to refer to General Dynamics and North American Aviation and AT&T as private business.
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Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.
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The study of money, above all other fields in economics, is one in which complexity is used to disguise truth or to evade truth, not to reveal it. The process by which banks create money is so simple the mind is repelled.
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Of late I have searched diligently to discover the advantages of age, and there is, I have concluded, only one. It is that lovely women treat your approaches with understanding rather than with disdain.
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Speeches in our culture are the vacuum that fills a vacuum.
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Men are, in fact, either sustained by organization or they sustain organization.
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According to the experience of all but the most accomplished jugglers, it is easier to keep one ball in the air than many.
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A businessman who reads Business Week is lost to fame. One who reads Proust is marked for greatness.
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If people are hungry, ill-clad, unsheltered or diseased, nothing is so important as to remedy their condition.
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Ideas do not respect national frontiers, and this is especially so where language and other traditions are in common.
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I react to what is necessary. I would like to eschew any formula.
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These are the days when men of all social disciplines and all political faiths seek the comfortable and the accepted when the man of controversy is looked upon as a disturbing influence when originality is taken to be a mark of instability and when, in minor modification of the original parable, the bland lead the bland.
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The present age of contentment will come to an end only when and if the adverse developments that it fosters challenge the sense of comfortable well-being
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What was needed was a policy that increased the supply of money available for use and then ensured its use. Then the state of trade would have to improve.
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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.
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No solution [to the problem of poverty] is so effective as providing income to the poor. Whether in the form of food, housing, health services, education or money, income is an excellent antidote for deprivation. No truth has spawned so much ingenious evasion.
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Economic stimulation that works through the increased outlays to the affluent has, inevitably, an aspect of soundness and sanity that is lacking in expenditure on behalf of the undeserving poor.
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The foresight of financial experts was, as so often, a poor guide to the future.
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There is little that can be said about most economic goods. A toothbrush does little but clean teeth. Aspirin does little but dull pain. Alcohol is important mostly for making people more or less drunk ... There being so little to be said, much is to be invented.
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The size of General Motors is in the service not of monopoly or the economies of scale but of planning.
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War remains the decisive human failure.
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The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.
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Faced with having to change our views or prove that there is no need to do so, most of us immediately get busy on the proof.
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The power of the corporate bureaucracy - the power of technostructure (a term that did not take off) - is something to which I still adhere.
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