Of all classes the rich are the most noticed and the least studied.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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Of all classes the rich are the most noticed and the least studied.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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Ideas do not respect national frontiers, and this is especially so where language and other traditions are in common.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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Meetings are a great trap … they are indispensable when you don’t want to do anything.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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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
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When the modern corporation acquires power over markets, power in the community, power over the state and power over belief, it is a political instrument, different in degree but not in kind from the state itself.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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If inheritance qualifies one for office, intelligence cannot be a requirement.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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Agreeable as it is to know where one is proceeding, it is far more important to know where one has arrived.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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The massive reduction in risk that is inherent in the development of the modern corporation has been far from fully appreciated.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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