John Kenneth Galbraith

John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)
US (Canadian-born) administrator & economist [more author details]
Showing quotations 1 to 13 of 13 total Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists. John Kenneth Galbraith If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error. John Kenneth Galbraith It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled sea of thought. John Kenneth GalbraithMeetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything. John Kenneth GalbraithNothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory. John Kenneth Galbraith Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. John Kenneth Galbraith The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking. John Kenneth GalbraithThe happiest time of anyone's life is just after the first divorce. John Kenneth GalbraithThe 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 GalbraithThe only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable. John Kenneth GalbraithUnder capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite. John Kenneth Galbraith 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. John Kenneth Galbraith You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too. John Kenneth Galbraith

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