John Kenneth Galbraith

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Quote link. Other quotes about: men women change mind: "Change comes not from men and women changing their minds, but from the change from one generation to the next."
Quote link.: "Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists."
Quote link. Other quotes about: people need: "Few people at the beginning of the ninteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted."
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Quote link.: "If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error."
Quote link. Other quotes about: wrong right alone: "In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone."
Quote link. Other quotes about: wrong: "In economics, the majority is always wrong."
Quote link. Other quotes about: people need mind: "In the choice between changing ones mind and proving there's no need to do so, most people get busy on the proof."
Quote link.: "It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled sea of thought."
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Quote link.: "Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything."
Quote link.: "Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue."
Quote link.: "Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory."
Quote link. Other quotes about: wisdom: "One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know."
Quote link.: "People fo privilage will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage."
Quote link. Other quotes about: art: "Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable."
Quote link.: "Technology means the systematic application of scientific or other organized knowledge to practical tasks."
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Quote link. Other quotes about: man: "Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite."
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Quote link. Other quotes about: never: "Wealth is not without its advantages, and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive."
Quote link. Other quotes about: bad good: "Where humor is concerned there are no standards - no one can say what is good or bad, although you can be sure that everyone will."
Quote link. Other quotes about: bad small find: "You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too."

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