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I react to what is necessary. I would like to eschew any formula.
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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The size of General Motors is in the service not of monopoly or the economies of scale but of planning.
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If it is dangerous to suppose that government is always right, it will sooner or later be awkward for public administration if most people suppose that it is always wrong.
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The experience of being disastrously wrong is salutary, no economist should be denied it, and not many are.
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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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There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth.
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Authorship of any sort is a fantastic indulgence of the ego.
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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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It was Herbert Spencer, not Charles Darwin, who coined the phrase Survival of the Fittest.
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The more underdeveloped the country, the more overdeveloped the women.
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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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Only men of considerable vanity write books consistently therewith, I worried lest the world were exchanging an irreplaceable author for a more easily purchased diplomat.
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In the autumn of 1929 the mightiest of Americans were, for a brief time, revealed as human beings.
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The foresight of financial experts was, as so often, a poor guide to the future.
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Only in very recent times has the average man been a source of savings.
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The spirit should never grow old.
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Preservationists are the only people in the world who are invariably confirmed in their wisdom after the fact.
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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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Agriculture is one economic activity that does not obey the laws of demand and supply.
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The world of finance hails the invention of the wheel over and over again, often in a slightly more unstable version.
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