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John Kenneth Galbraith
American (Canadian-born) administrator & economist
 | Quotes by John Kenneth Galbraith |
| “ | Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.
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| “ | If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.
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| “ | It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled sea of thought. | ” |
| “ | Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything. | ” |
| “ | Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.
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| “ | Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. | ” |
| “ | The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking. | ” |
| “ | The happiest time of anyone's life is just after the first divorce. | ” |
| “ | 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. | ” |
| “ | The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable. | ” |
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