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Important Quotes by John Kenneth Galbraith
- Good writing, and this is especially important in a subject such as economics, must also involve the reader in the matter at hand. It is…
- It is almost as important to know what is not serious as to know what is.
- If people are hungry, ill-clad, unsheltered or diseased, nothing is so important as to remedy their condition.
- The questions that are beyond the reach of economics-the beauty, dignity, pleasure and durability of life-may be inconvenient but they are important.
- Very important functions can be performed very wastefully and often are.
- While it will be desirable to achieve planned results, it will be even more important to avoid unplanned disasters.
- Agreeable as it is to know where one is proceeding, it is far more important to know where one has arrived.
- Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.
- The study of money, above all other fields in economics, is one in which complexity is used to disguise truth or to evade truth, not…
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