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Power is as power does.
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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I predict, not because I know, but because I'm asked.
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Genius is a rising stock market.
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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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Inflation does not lubricate trade but by rescuing traders from their errors of optimism or stupidity.
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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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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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I react to what is necessary. I would like to eschew any formula.
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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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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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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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