John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: economist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 15, 1908 - April 29, 2006

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Your attitude will go a long way in determining your success, your recognition, your reputation and your enjoyment in being a lawyer.

Joe Jamail

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The great thing about living in New York is the constant change of things. It inspires me to keep moving, push forward, question ideas.

John Varvatos

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I was well read and knew languages, but I didn't want to become Ezra Pound. I wanted to write poetry that people like my parents might respond to.

Tony Harrison

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I love some kind of pressure in the air. Some kind of weirdness in the crowd, good or bad. That's what we thrive on.

Mike McCready

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I have many favorite artists... Van Gogh as one, but he didn't really sing a lot!

Colin Mochrie

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Upon the clothes behind the tenement, That hang like ghosts suspended from the lines, Linking each flat, but to each indifferent, Incongruous and strange the moonlight shines.

Claude McKay

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It's the advantage of the virus to spread, and you can only spread when you infect people and they infect other people without necessarily killing them. So if you had 100 percent mortality, the potential pandemic would almost self-eliminate itself.

Anthony Fauci

PeoplePotentialYouWithoutSpread

The drums are very trashy: it's all electric, it's very in your face, and it's not perfect. It's raw, and I think that's what 'garage' means.

Aubrie Sellers

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Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous.

William Proxmire

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One day I may be meeting you and hearing how you've changed your life by saying, 'Farewell to Fat'.

Richard Simmons

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I always say that every win has something that is special.

Mario Andretti

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A woman at 20 is like ice, at 30 she is warm and at 40 she is hot.

Gina Lollobrigida

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