“Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.”
John Kenneth Galbraith
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“The contented and economically comfortable have a very discriminating view of government. Nobody is ever indignant about bailing out failed banks and failed savings and loans associations…. But when taxes must be paid for the lower middle class and poor, the government assumes an aspect of wickedness.”
John Kenneth Galbraith
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“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.”
John Kenneth Galbraith
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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.”
John Kenneth Galbraith
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“The real accomplishment of modern science and technology consists in taking ordinary men, informing them narrowly and deeply and then, through appropriate organization, arranging to have their knowledge combined with that of other specialized but equally ordinary men. This dispenses with the need for genius. The resulting performance, though less inspiring, is far more predictable.”
John Kenneth Galbraith
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“There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.”
John Kenneth Galbraith
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“The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.”
John Kenneth Galbraith
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“One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.”
John Kenneth Galbraith
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“Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.”
John Kenneth Galbraith
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“The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.”
John Kenneth Galbraith
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“People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy.”
John Kenneth Galbraith
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Virtue
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“There’s a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a billion dollars.”
John Kenneth Galbraith
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“Of all classes the rich are the most noticed and the least studied.”
John Kenneth Galbraith
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“In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.”
John Kenneth Galbraith
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“There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.”
John Kenneth Galbraith
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“Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.”
John Kenneth Galbraith
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“We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect.”
John Kenneth Galbraith
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“Meetings are indispensable when you don’t want to do anything.”
John Kenneth Galbraith
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“There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth.”
John Kenneth Galbraith
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“In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.”
John Kenneth Galbraith
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
