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John Kenneth Galbraith Biography

Nationality: American
Type: Economist

Born: October 15, 1908
Death: April 29, 2006

John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes #1

It has been the acknowledged right of every Marxist scholar to read into Marx the particular meaning that he himself prefers and to treat all others with indignation.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Tags: Others, Treat, Read

John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes #2

A person buying ordinary products in a supermarket is in touch with his deepest emotions.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Tags: Person, Touch, Emotions

John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes #3

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

John Kenneth Galbraith

Tags: Money , Mind, Simple

John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes #4

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Tags: Politics , Nothing, Short

John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes #5

Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Tags: Finance , Wealth, Improbable

John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes #6

In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Tags: Life , Wrong, Comfort

John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes #7

Few can believe that suffering, especially by others, is in vain. Anything that is disagreeable must surely have beneficial economic effects.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Tags: Believe, Must, Others

John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes #8

In economics, the majority is always wrong.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Tags: Wrong, Economics, Majority

John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes #9

All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Tags: Successful, Door, Kicking

John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes #10

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

John Kenneth Galbraith

Tags: Food , Die, United

John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes #11

Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention, but it has no persuasive value at all.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Tags: Humor , Person, Attention

John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes #12

The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Tags: Job, Thinking, Painful

John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes #13

Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Tags: Politics , Reason, Aware

John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes #14

Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Tags: Politics , Art , Between

John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes #15

We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Tags: Intelligence , Intellect, Superior

John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes #16

We can safely abandon the doctrine of the eighties, namely that the rich were not working because they had too little money, the poor because they had much.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Tags: Money , Working, Rich

John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes #17

Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Tags: Place, Problems, Ourselves

John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes #18

All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Tags: Leadership , Time , Great

John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes #19

Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Tags: Mind, Busy, Between

John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes #20

The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Tags: Nature , Personal, Himself

John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes #21

Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Tags: Government , Economics, Useful

John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes #22

The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Tags: Economic, Function, Astrology

John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes #23

It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Tags: Better, Thought, Put

John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes #24

Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Tags: Finance , Capitalism, Communism

John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes #25

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Tags: Politics , Philosophy, Moral

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