John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes
1908–2006 Canada
John Kenneth Galbraith (15 October 1908 – 29 April 2006), also known as J. K.
- Canada
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- Non-fiction authors
Also known as: Galbraith, John Kenneth
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If inheritance qualifies one for office, intelligence cannot be a requirement.
The privileged have regularly invited their own destruction with their greed.
Foresight is an imperfect thing — all prevision in economics is imperfect.
Very important functions can be performed very wastefully and often are.
Of all classes the rich are the most noticed and the least studied.
More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.
Why is anything intrinsically so valueless so obviously desirable?
The first goal of the technostructure is its own security.
The greater the wealth the thicker will be the dirt.
Simple minds, presumably, are the easiest to manage.
Economists are generally negligent of their heroes.
One man's consumption becomes his neighbor's wish.
It is in the long run that the corporation lives.
In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.
The values of a society totally preoccupied with making money are not altogether reassuring.
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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: John Kenneth Galbraith (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.