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We have escapist fiction, so ...

We have escapist fiction, so why not escapist biography?

John Galbraith 445 quotes

Meetings are a great trap. So...

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.

John Galbraith 445 quotes

In any great organization it ...

In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.

John Galbraith 445 quotes

The Metropolis should have be...

The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

John Galbraith 445 quotes

Much literary criticism comes...

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.

John Galbraith 445 quotes

In all life one should comfor...

In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong.

John Galbraith 445 quotes

Politics is not the art of th...

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

John Galbraith 445 quotes

Few can believe that sufferin...

Few can believe that suffering, especially by others, is in vain. Anything that is disagreeable must surely have beneficial economic effects.

John Galbraith 445 quotes

The enemy of the conventional...

The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.

John Galbraith 445 quotes

There are few ironclad rules ...

There are few ironclad rules of diplomacy but to one there is no exception. When an official reports that talks were useful, it can safely be concluded that nothing was accomplished.

John Galbraith 445 quotes

If all else fails, immortalit...

If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.

John Galbraith 445 quotes

War remains the decisive huma...

War remains the decisive human failure.

John Galbraith 445 quotes

There is certainly no absolut...

There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.

John Galbraith 445 quotes

It is a far, far better thing...

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

John Galbraith 445 quotes

Of all classes the rich are t...

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

John Galbraith 445 quotes

Nothing is so admirable in po...

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Galbraith 445 quotes

In economics, hope and faith ...

In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability.

John Galbraith 445 quotes

Faced with the choice between...

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.

John Galbraith 445 quotes

We can safely abandon the doc...

We can safely abandon the doctrine of the eighties, namely that the rich were not working because they had too little money, the poor because they had much.

John Galbraith 445 quotes

More die in the United States...

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

John Galbraith 445 quotes

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