Best John Kenneth Galbraith Sayings
- There can be no question, however, that prolonged commitment to mathematical exercises in economics can be damaging. It leads to the atrophy of judgement and… Atrophy
- It is my guiding confession that I believe the greatest error in economics is in seeing the economy as a stable, immutable structure. Believe
- The world of finance hails the invention of the wheel over and over again, often in a slightly more unstable version. Business
- Some things were never meant to be recycled. Funny
- Inventions that are not made, like babies that are not born, are not missed. Babies
- Originality is something that is easily exaggerated, especially by authors contemplating their own work. Authors
- One of my greatest pleasures in my writing has come from the thought that perhaps my work might annoy someone of comfortably pretentious position. Then… Annoy
- If there must be madness, something may be said for having it on a heroic scale Heroic
- Wisdom... is often an abstraction associated not with fact or reality but with the man who asserts it and the manner of its assertion. Abstraction
- Man, at least when educated, is a pessimist. He believes it safer not to reflect on his achievements; Jove is known to strike such people… Achievement
- Mr. David Stockman has said that supply-side economics was merely a cover for the trickle-down approach to economic policy—what an older and less elegant generation… Approach
- Men have been swindled by other men on many occasions. The autumn of 1929 was, perhaps, the first occasion when men succeeded on a large… Autumn
- Even in such a time of madness as the late twenties, a great many man in Wall Street remained quite sane. But they also remained… Always Silent
- More investment trusts securities were offered in September of 1929 even than in August - the total was above $600 million. However, the nearly simultaneous… August
- We live surrounded by a systematic appeal to a dream world which all mature, scientific reality would reject. We, quite literally, advertise our commitment to… Advertise
- Partly, the Russian system succeeds because, in contrast to the Western industrial economies, it makes full use of its manpower. Contrast
- Money is what fueled the industrial society. But in the informational society, the fuel, the power, is knowledge. One has now come to see a new… Class
- To see economic policy as a problem of choice between rival ideologies is the greatest error of our time. Choice
- The privileged have regularly invited their own destruction with their greed. Destruction
- There can be few fields of human endeavor in which history counts for so little as in the world of finance.Past experience, to the extent… All
- All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door. The violence of revolutions is the violence of men who charge into a vacuum. All
- Ideas are inherently conservative. They yield not to the attack of other ideas but to the massive onslaught of circumstance with which they cannot contend. Attack
- If you get a reputation for being honest, you have 95 percent of the competition already beat. Already Beat
- It's much easier to point out the problem than it is to say just how it should be solved. Easier
- If we are concerned about our great appetite for materials, it is plausible to decrease waste, to make better use of stocks available, and to… Appetite
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