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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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One can relish the varied idiocy of human action during a panic to the full, for, while it is a time of great tragedy, nothing is being lost but money.
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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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The urge to consume is fathered by the value system which emphasizes the ability of the society to produce.
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Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man's greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source of anxiety. Over all history it has oppressed nearly all people in one of two ways: either it has been abundant and very unreliable, or reliable and very scarce.
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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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All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.
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All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door. The violence of revolutions is the violence of men who charge into a vacuum.
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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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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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There is an enormous thrust in our time to have a simple answer. And that simple answer is that all depends on Alan Greenspan and the Federal Reserve. And Alan, who is an old acquaintance of mine, is a marvelous performer in the impression he gives of enormously great perception.
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Inventions that are not made, like babies that are not born, are rarely missed.
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Agriculture is one economic activity that does not obey the laws of demand and supply.
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In economics, the majority is always wrong.
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For the sake of The Progressive, I will say that [Robert] La Follette was relevant, but he was the last.
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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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But it can be laid down as a rule that those who speak most of liberty are least inclined to use it.
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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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It was Herbert Spencer, not Charles Darwin, who coined the phrase Survival of the Fittest.
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Educators have yet to realize how deeply the industrial system is dependent upon them.
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American university presidents are a nervous breed I have never thought well of them as a class.
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