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A businessman who reads Business Week is lost to fame. One who reads Proust is marked for greatness.
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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It was not hard to persuade people that the market was sound as always in such times they asked only that the dispiriting voices of doubt be muted and that there should be tolerably frequent expressions of confidence.
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When you see reference to a new paradigm you should always, under all circumstances, take cover.
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Economists are economical, among other things, of ideas most make those of their graduate days do for a lifetime.
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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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We talk of the enormous virtues of work, but it turns out that that is mostly for the poor. If you're rich enough or if you're a college professor, the virtue lies in leisure and the use you make of your leisure time.
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The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.
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In economics it is a far, far wiser thing to be right than to be consistent
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I never enjoyed writing a book more indeed, it is the only one I remember in no sense as a labor but as a joy.
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Those days [of the Vietnam War] you couldn't get on a bus going to the South without expecting a riot over something or the other. All of that has disappeared thanks to Lyndon Johnson.
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The happiest time of anyone's life is just after the first divorce.
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It takes some skill to spoil a breakfast - even the English can't do it.
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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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Happiness does not require an expanding economy
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I do the best with what exists.
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There are days when the result is so bad that no fewer than five revisions are required. In contrast, when I'm greatly inspired, only four revisions are needed.
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Complexity and obscurity have professional value - they are the academic equivalents of apprenticeship rules in the building trades. They exclude the outsiders, keep down the competition, preserve the image of a privileged or priestly class. The man who makes things clear is a scab. He is criticized less for his clarity than for his treachery.
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