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The greater the wealth the thicker will be the dirt.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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John Kenneth Galbraith
Age: 97 †
Born: 1908
Born: October 15
Died: 2006
Died: April 29
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John K. Galbraith
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Economists, on the whole, think well of what they do themselves and much less well of what their professional colleagues do.
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In dealing with Mr. Nixon, it is not easy to be unfair. He invites and justifies all available criticism.
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You roll back the stones, and you find slithering things. That is the world of Richard Nixon.
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The myth that holds that the great corporation is the puppet of the market, the powerless servant of the consumer, is, in fact one of the devices by which its power is perpetuated.
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This is a world inhabited not by people who have to be persuaded to believe but by people who want an excuse to believe.
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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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A point must be repeated: only the pathological weakness of the financial memory...allows us to believe that the modern experience of....debt...is in any way a new phenomenon.
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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.
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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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It takes some skill to spoil a breakfast - even the English can't do it.
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In the United States all business not transacted over the telephone is accomplished in conjunction with alcohol or food, often under conditions of advanced intoxication. This is a fact of the utmost importance for the visitor of limited funds... for it means that the most expensive restaurants are, with rare exceptions, the worst.
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Men are, in fact, either sustained by organization or they sustain organization.
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Genius is a rising stock market.
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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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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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Emancipation of belief is the most formidable of the tasks of reform and the one on which all else depends.
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I think the role of the Federal Reserve is enormously exaggerated.
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The inborn instability of capitalism has been part of the history of the system for several hundred years.
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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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Superficial observers have long criticized the United States for making a fetish of youth. This is unfair. Uniquely among modern organs of public and private administration, its national legislature rewards senility.
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