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John Kenneth Galbraith
 
Date of birth: 15 October 1908
Date of death: 29 April 2006
Country Of Origin: Canada
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Economist

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" A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance; but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books. "

John Kenneth Galbraith
" A person buying ordinary products in a supermarket is in touch with his deepest emotions. "

John Kenneth Galbraith
" All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership. "

John Kenneth Galbraith
" All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door. "

John Kenneth Galbraith
" All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door. The violence of revolutions is the violence of men who charge into a vacuum. "

John Kenneth Galbraith
" Anyone who says he won't resign four times, will. "

John Kenneth Galbraith
" By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man. "

John Kenneth Galbraith
" Economics is a subject profoundly conducive to cliche, resonant with boredom. On few topics is an American audience so practiced in turning off its ears and minds. And none can say that the response is ill advised. "

John Kenneth Galbraith
" Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists. "

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

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

John Kenneth Galbraith
" Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted. "

John Kenneth Galbraith
" Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention, but it has no persuasive value at all. "

John Kenneth Galbraith
" If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error. "

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