117 ordspråk av John Kenneth Galbraith

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John Kenneth Galbraith föddes den October 15th 1908 - Canadian-US economist
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 Man, at least when educated, is a pessimist. He believes it safer not to reflect on his achievements; Jove is known to strike such people down.

 Meetings are a great trap. Soon you find yourself trying to get agreement and then the people who disagree come to think they have a right to be persuaded. However, they are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.

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

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

 Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.

 Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.

 Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man's greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source of anxiety. Over all history it has oppressed nearly all people in one of two ways: either it has been abundant and very unreliable, or reliable and very scarce.

 More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.

 Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom.

 Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

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

 On the first of January of 1929, as a simple matter of probability, it was most likely that the boom would end before the year was out, ... The market wouldn't level out; it would fall precipitately.

 Once the visitor was told rather repetitively that this city was the melting pot; never before in history had so many people of such varied languages, customs, colors and culinary habits lived so amicably together. Although New York remains peaceful by most standards, this self-congratulation is now less often heard, since it was discovered some years ago that racial harmony depended unduly on the willingness of the blacks (and latterly the Puerto Ricans) to do for the other races the meanest jobs at the lowest wages and then to return to live by themselves in the worst slums.

 One can relish the varied idiocy of human action during a panic to the full, for, while it is a time of great tragedy, nothing is being lost but money

 One of the best ways of avoiding necessary and even urgent tasks is to seem to be busily employed on things that are already done


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