Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.
John Kenneth Galbraith
- Life
- 1908-2006
- Occupations
- economist, diplomat, politician
- Notable works
- History of Economics: The Past as the Present
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If all else fails immortality can always be assured by adequate error.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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 Kenneth Galbraith
In the autumn of 1929 the mightiest of Americans were, for a brief time, revealed as human beings.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it’s just the opposite.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.
John Kenneth Galbraith