John Kenneth Galbraith

"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."

Top John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes

"The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable."

"The 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."

"Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite."

"It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought."

"Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof."

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