John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes

American - Economist | October 15, 1908 - April 29, 2006

In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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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.

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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

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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

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

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One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.

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The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.

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

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In the choice between changing ones mind and proving there's no need to do so, most people get busy on the proof.

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

John Kenneth Galbraith

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