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Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.
Written by John Kenneth Galbraith
Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted.
Written by John Kenneth Galbraith
The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself.
Written by John Kenneth Galbraith
More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.
Written by John Kenneth Galbraith
Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.
Written by John Kenneth Galbraith
If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.
Written by John Kenneth Galbraith
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
Written by John Kenneth Galbraith
Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.
Written by John Kenneth Galbraith
It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought.
Written by John Kenneth Galbraith
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
Written by John Kenneth Galbraith
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
Written by John Kenneth Galbraith
The commencement speech is not, I think, a wholly satisfactory manifestation of our culture.
Written by John Kenneth Galbraith
We have escapist fiction, so why not escapist biography?
Written by John Kenneth Galbraith
Economics is a subject profoundly conducive to cliche, resonant with boredom. On few topics is an American audience so practiced in turning off its ears and minds. And none can say that the response is ill advised.
Written by John Kenneth Galbraith
If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.
Written by John Kenneth Galbraith
A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance; but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books.
Written by John Kenneth Galbraith
In the choice between changing ones mind and proving there's no need to do so, most people get busy on the proof.
Written by John Kenneth Galbraith
In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.
Written by John Kenneth Galbraith
Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.
Written by John Kenneth Galbraith
You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too.
Written by John Kenneth Galbraith
One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.
Written by John Kenneth Galbraith
The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.
Written by John Kenneth Galbraith
A person buying ordinary products in a supermarket is in touch with his deepest emotions.
Written by John Kenneth Galbraith
Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention, but it has no persuasive value at all.
Written by John Kenneth Galbraith
There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.
Written by John Kenneth Galbraith
Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.
Written by John Kenneth Galbraith
There are few ironclad rules of diplomacy but to one there is no exception. When an official reports that talks were useful, it can safely be concluded that nothing was accomplished.
Written by John Kenneth Galbraith
There's a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a billion dollars.
Written by John Kenneth Galbraith
The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled.
Written by John Kenneth Galbraith
Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
Written by John Kenneth Galbraith

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