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Great Quotes by John Kenneth Galbraith
- 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…
- 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…
- The income men derive from producing things of slight consequence is of great consequence. The production reflects the low marginal utility of the goods to…
- There is an insistent tendency among serious social scientists to think of any institution which features rhymed and singing commercials, intense and lachrymose voices urging…
- The myth that holds that the great corporation is the puppet of the market, the powerless servant of the consumer, is, in fact one of…
- There was something superficial in attributing anything so awful as the Great Depression to anything so insubstantial as speculation in common stocks.
- No one was responsible for the great Wall Street crash. No one engineered the speculation that preceded it. Both were the product of free choice…
- When you see reference to a new paradigm you should always, under all circumstances, take cover. Because ever since the great tulipmania in 1637, speculation…
- 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…
- In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.
- In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability.
- Meetings are a great trap. Soon you find yourself trying to get agreement and then the people who disagree come to think they have a…
- The great dialectic in our time is not, as anciently and by some still supposed, between capital and labor; it is between economic enterprise and…
- One can relish the varied idiocy of human action during a panic to the full, for, while it is a time of great tragedy, nothing…
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