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Business Quotes by John Kenneth Galbraith
- 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.…
- The accepted ideas of any period are singularly those that serve the dominant economic interest...What economists believe and teach, whether in the United States or…
- Happiness does not require an expanding economy
- The world of finance hails the invention of the wheel over and over again, often in a slightly more unstable version.
- [The] men of the technostructure are the new and universal priesthood. Their religion is business success; their test of virtue is growth and profit. Their…
- A businessman who reads Business Week is lost to fame. One who reads Proust is marked for greatness.
- Writing is a long and lonesome business; back of the problems in thought and composition hover always the awful questions: Is this the page that…
- Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
- The modern corporation must manufacture not only goods but the desire for the goods it manufactures.
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