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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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 Kenneth Galbraith

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Economics is not an exact science.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith

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The values of a society totally preoccupied with making money are not altogether reassuring.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith

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