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Few Quotes by John Kenneth Galbraith
- Capitalism is chronically unstable.Boom and bust has always marked capitalism in the United States. There were panics in 1785, 1791, 1819, 1857, 1869, 1873, 1907,…
- Few economic problems, if any, are difficult of solution. The difficulty, all but invariably, is in confronting them. We know what needs to be done;…
- 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…
- I am not quite sure what the advantage is in having a few more dollars to spend if the air is too dirty to breathe,…
- Few things are as immutable as the addiction of political groups to the ideas by whichthey have once won office.
- Few things in life can be so appalling as the difference between a dry antiseptic statement of a principle by a well spoken man in…
- Any country that has Milton Friedman as an adviser has nothing to fear from a few million Arabs.
- Few can believe that suffering, especially by others, is in vain. Anything that is disagreeable must surely have beneficial economic effects.
- Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted.
- 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…
- 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…
- The total alteration in underlying circumstances has not been squarely faced, As a result, we are guided, in part, by ideas that are relevant to…
- Few things are more tempting to a writer than to repeat, admiringly, what he has said before
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