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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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I do the best with what exists.
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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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Nothing is more portable than rich people and their money
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Foreign policy is conducted for the convenience and enjoyment of people in Washington.
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People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy.
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Things that come from the private sector are in abundant supply things that depend on the public sector are widely a problem. We're a world, as I said in The Affluent Society, of filthy streets and clean houses, poor schools and expensive television.
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All writers know that on some golden mornings they are touched by the wand they are on intimate terms with poetry and cosmic truth. I have experienced these moments myself. Their lesson is simple: It's a total illusion. And the danger in the illusion is that you will wait for those moments.
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THE GENIUS of the industrial system lies in its organized use of capital and technology. This is made possible, as we have duly seen, by extensively replacing the market with planning.
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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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There was something superficial in attributing anything so awful as the Great Depression to anything so insubstantial as speculation in common stocks.
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Genius is a rising stock market.
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There is little that can be said about most economic goods. A toothbrush does little but clean teeth. Aspirin does little but dull pain. Alcohol is important mostly for making people more or less drunk ... There being so little to be said, much is to be invented.
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Pundits forecast not because they know, but because they are asked.
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To add to the technostructure is to increase its power in the enterprise.
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If all else fails immortality can always be assured by adequate error.
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Private enterprise did not get us atomic energy.
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In recent times no problem has been more puzzling to thoughtful people than why, in a troubled world, we make such poor use of our affluence.
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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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One man's consumption becomes his neighbor's wish.
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