Desirable Quote by John Kenneth Galbraith Download Open image “Unemployment is rarely considered desirable except by those who have not experienced it.” — John Kenneth Galbraith ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Desirable Unemployment Work
There is no such thing as an acceptable level of unemployment, because hunger is not acceptable, poverty is not acceptable, poor health is not… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
I've never been unemployed. I've never been very fully employed either. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
People respond to incentives. If unemployment becomes more attractive because of the unemployment benefit, some unemployed workers may no longer try to find a… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
UNEMPLOYMENT IS THE KEY TO POVERTY,THEREFORE EVERY ONE SHOULD WORK HARD TO GET EMPLOYED, IN ORDER TO LIVE A HAPPY LIFE. — Juliana Namagembe Copy Share Image
Being unemployed - or working at minimum wage - is rough in the best of circumstances. — Adam Cohen Copy Share Image
If there is unemployment in America, it is because the unemployed do not want to work. — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
When a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results. — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
An acceptable level of unemployment means that the government economist to whom it is acceptable still has a job. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The people who do not get jobs are often the most vulnerable in our society, and joblessness is a terrible plight for anyone who… — Tim Bishop Copy Share Image
Have you noticed that all the news, statistics, strategies about unemployment are provided by those who are employed? As soon as you are unemployed… — Dale Spender Copy Share Image
Getting on the cover of TIME guarantees the existence of opposition in the future. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Technology means the systematic application of scientific or other organized knowledge to practical tasks. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
“Men can labor to make sense out of single steps toward the goal without ever pausing to reflect that the goal itself is ludicrous.” — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Consumer wants can have bizarre, frivolous, or even immoral origins, and an admirable case can still be made for a society that seeks to… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
That one never need to look beyond the love of money for explanation of human behavior is one of the most jealously guarded simplification… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Agriculture is one economic activity that does not obey the laws of demand and supply. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
If we were not in Vietnam, all that part of the world would be enjoying the obscurity it so richly deserves. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Washington is a place where men praise courage and act on elaborate personal cost-benefit calculations. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
World War II revealed two of the enduring features of the Keynesian Revolution. One was the moral difference between spending for welfare and spending… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Money is what fueled the industrial society. But in the informational society, the fuel, the power, is knowledge. One has now come to see… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
While it will be desirable to achieve planned results, it will be even more important to avoid unplanned disasters. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
At times of recession, running a budget deficit is highly desirable. Once the economy begins to recover, you have to balance the budget. But… — George Soros Copy Share Image
It was both necessary and desirable for us to be so strong at sea that no Sea Power could attack us without risk, so… — Bernhard von Bulow Copy Share Image
Things to be done offer themselves, I suppose, because they are in themselves desirable; not because it is desirable to have something to do. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
The goal in raising one's child is to enable him, first, to discover who he wants to be, and then to become a person… — Bruno Bettelheim Copy Share Image
What seems so necessary today may not even be desirable tomorrow. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Common sense is both more rare and more desirable in leaders than mere intelligence. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
When the desirable jobs are spending other people's money, reporting on spending other people's money and lobbying to spend other people's money then you… — Tim Worstall Copy Share Image
Social and cultural change, however desirable, should not be effected by the engines of national power. Let us, through persuasion and education, seek to… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
It is the common calamity of old age to lose whatever might have rendered it desirable. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Desire itself is movement Not in itself desirable; Love is itself unmoving, Only the cause and end of movement, Timeless, and undesiring Except in… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image