Desirable Quote by John Kenneth Galbraith Download Open image “Why is anything intrinsically so valueless so obviously desirable?” — John Kenneth Galbraith ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Desirable Funny Inspirational Love Valueless
Nothing is intrinsically valuable; the value of everything is attributed to it, assigned to it from outside the thing itself, by people. — John Barth Copy Share Image
Things that are easily acquired, obtained, or maintained, without any effort or sacrifice lack value...it's human nature. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sometimes something has a value, it has an instant quality to it, and that's all it needs to be. — Erol Alkan Copy Share Image
Nothing has value in itself. The consumer confers value on it by seeking to acquire it. Hence, the value of a thing is never… — Faustino Ballve Copy Share Image
It often takes catching a glimpse of how our life would be without something that's valuable to us for us to realize just how… — Hal Elrod Copy Share Image
“In the universe there are only a few absolutes of value; something is valuable because it can be eaten for nourishment or used as… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
We must honor our worthiness in order to receive what we want. In our society we are conditioned to believe that we are not… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
“Why do we own so many things when we don’t need them? What is their purpose? I think the answer is quite clear: We’re… — Fumio Sasaki Copy Share Image
“Intrinsic valuation is the value to be found in any uniquely individual object not subject to limitations of those values shared in common with… — John William Davis Copy Share Image
Priceless things matter not for their value, but because they offer us an enduring reminder of stability and permanence. — Barbara Taylor Bradford Copy Share Image
When you experience having nothing you value everything - and that applies to all aspects of life. — Geoff Capes 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
