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Letter "J" » John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes
«In economics, the majority is always wrong.»
«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.»
Author: John Kenneth Galbraith
| Keywords:
agreeable, beach, Eliminating, enforces, highly, inertia, neatly, overly, permits, physical world
«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.»
Author: John Kenneth Galbraith
| Keywords:
award, awarded, awarding, Chief Executive, corporation, executive, frequently, gesture, salaries, salary
«In central banking as in diplomacy, style, conservative tailoring, and an easy association with the affluent count greatly and results far much less»
Author: John Kenneth Galbraith
| About:
Bankers and banks
| Keywords:
affluent, association, banking, central, central bank, central banking, diplomacy, tailor, tailored, tailoring, The Tailor
«The contented and economically comfortable have a very discriminating view of government. Nobody is ever indignant about bailing out failed banks and failed savings and loans associations. But when taxes must be paid for the lower middle class and poor, the government assumes an aspect of wickedness.»
Author: John Kenneth Galbraith
| Keywords:
associations, assumes, bail, bailing, bail out, Banks, bank loan, contented, discriminated, discriminating, economically, loans, middle class, savings, savings bank, wickedness
«Economics is a subject profoundly conducive to cliche, resonant with boredom. On few topics is an American audience so practiced in turning off its ears and minds. And none can say that the response is ill advised.»
Author: John Kenneth Galbraith
| About:
America and Americans,
Economics
| Keywords:
advised, an American, cliche, conducive, economics, ill-advised, practiced, profoundly, resonant, response, topics
«Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.»
Author: John Kenneth Galbraith
| About:
Modesty,
Virtue
| Keywords:
overrate, overrated, overrates, overrating
«Any consideration of the life and larger social existence of the modern corporate man begins and also largely ends with the effect of one all-embracing force. That is organization -- the highly structured assemblage of men, and now some women, of which he is a part. It is to this, at the expense of family, friends, sex, recreation and sometimes health and effective control of alcoholic intake, that he is expected to devote his energies.»
Author: John Kenneth Galbraith
| Keywords:
all-embracing, assemblage, corporate, devote, intake, social control, social organization, social structure, structured
«What is called a high standard of living consists, in considerable measure, in arrangements for avoiding muscular energy, for increasing sensual pleasure and enhancing caloric intake above any conceivable nutritional requirement»
Author: John Kenneth Galbraith
| About:
Pleasure
| Keywords:
arrangements, caloric, considerable, enhancing, high energy, intake, muscular, nutritional, sensual
«Commencement oratory must eschew anything that smacks of partisan politics, political preference, sex, religion or unduly firm opinion. Nonetheless, there must be a speech: Speeches in our culture are the vacuum that fills a vacuum.»
Author: John Kenneth Galbraith
| About:
Politics,
Speech
| Keywords:
commencement, eschew, eschewed, nonetheless, partisans, preference, smacks
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