Quotes by John Kenneth Galbraith

John Kenneth Galbraith

Few things in life can be so appalling as the difference between a dry antiseptic statement of a principle by a well spoken man in a quiet office, and what happens to people when that principle is put into practice.

Men

Practice

Things In Life

Financial capacity and political perspicacity are inversely correlated. Long-run salvation by men of business has never been highly regarded if it means disturbance of orderly life and convenience in the present. So inaction will be advocated in the present even though it means deep trouble in the future. Here, at least equally with Communism, lies the threat to Capitalism. It is what causes men who know that things are going quite wrong to say that things are fundamentally sound.

Lying

Mean

Running

Financial operations do not lend themselves to innovation. What is recurrently so described and celebrated is, without exception, a small variation on an established design . . . The world of finance hails the invention of the wheel over and over again, often in a slightly more unstable version.

Design

Innovation

Variation

For the sake of The Progressive, I will say that [Robert] La Follette was relevant, but he was the last.

Lasts

Progressive

Sake

Foreign policy is conducted for the convenience and enjoyment of people in Washington.

Convenience

People

Politics

Foresight is an imperfect thing – all prevision in economics is imperfect.

Economics

Foresight

Imperfect Things

Franklin Delano Roosevelt and J.F Kennedy were Presidents in very different times.

Different

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

President

From the fact of general well-being came the new position of the poor. They were now in most communities a minority. The voice of the people was now the voice of relative affluence. Politicians in pursuit of votes could be expected to have a diminishing concern for the very poor. Compassion would have to serve instead – an uncertain substitute.

Compassion

People

Voice

From the spring of 1941, I controlled all prices in the United States. You could lower a price without my permission, but you couldn’t raise a price without my permission or that of my staff.

Permission

Spring

United States

Genius is a rising stock market.

Genius

Investing

Rising

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50th Birthday

Aberration

Ability

Absence

Acceptance

Accepted

Accepting

Accomplished

Achieve

Achievement

Action

Active

Add

Addiction

Advertising

Adviser

Affection

Affluence

Age

Agreement

Agriculture

Air

Alcohol

Alternatives

America

American Universities

Anchors

Annoying

Answers

Apology

Appreciate

Art

Arthur

Association

Assumption

Astrology

Atheism

Atmosphere

Atomic Energy

Attention

August

Autumn

Average

Avoiding

Awards

Awful

Awkward

Axes

Baby

Balls

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Quotes by John Kenneth Galbraith

John Kenneth Galbraith

Few things in life can be so appalling as the difference between a dry antiseptic statement of a principle by a well spoken man in a quiet office, and what happens to people when that principle is put into practice.

Financial operations do not lend themselves to innovation. What is recurrently so described and celebrated is, without exception, a small variation on an established design . . . The world of finance hails the invention of the wheel over and over again, often in a slightly more unstable version.

For the sake of The Progressive, I will say that [Robert] La Follette was relevant, but he was the last.

Foreign policy is conducted for the convenience and enjoyment of people in Washington.

Foresight is an imperfect thing – all prevision in economics is imperfect.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt and J.F Kennedy were Presidents in very different times.

From the spring of 1941, I controlled all prices in the United States. You could lower a price without my permission, but you couldn’t raise a price without my permission or that of my staff.

Genius is a rising stock market.

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