John Kenneth Galbraith Short Quotes

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One man's consumption becomes his neighbor's wish.

John Kenneth Galbraith
Economists are generally negligent of their heroes.

John Kenneth Galbraith
Simple minds, presumably, are the easiest to manage.

John Kenneth Galbraith
The greater the wealth the thicker will be the dirt.

John Kenneth Galbraith
We do not manufacture wants for goods we do not produce.

John Kenneth Galbraith
The enemy of the market is not ideology but the engineer.

John Kenneth Galbraith
Nothing is more portable than rich people and their money

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The first goal of the technostructure is its own security.

John Kenneth Galbraith
More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.

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Why is anything intrinsically so valueless so obviously desirable?

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Of all classes the rich are the most noticed and the least studied.

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The more underdeveloped the country, the more overdeveloped the women.

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If all else fails immortality can always be assured by adequate error.

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Only in very recent times has the average man been a source of savings.

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It takes some skill to spoil a breakfast—even the English can't do it.

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There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.

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Very important functions can be performed very wastefully and often are.

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To add to the technostructure is to increase its power in the enterprise.

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The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.

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If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.

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Who is king in the world of the blind when there isn't even a one eyed man?

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One of the uses of depression is the exposure of what auditors fail to find.

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Foresight is an imperfect thing — all prevision in economics is imperfect.

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We do not experience and thus we have no measure of the disasters we prevent.

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Galbraith's law states that anyone who says he won't resign four times, will.

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The privileged have regularly invited their own destruction with their greed.

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If inheritance qualifies one for office, intelligence cannot be a requirement.

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If there must be madness, something may be said for having it on a heroic scale

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The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled.

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Men are, in fact, either sustained by organization or they sustain organization.

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