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Danh ngôn của John Kenneth Galbraith (Sứ mệnh: 4)

The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself.
More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.
Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.
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.
Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.
Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.
One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.
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.
There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.
Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.
The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled.
Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.
Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.
The great dialectic in our time is not, as anciently and by some still supposed, between capital and labor; it is between economic enterprise and the state.
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.
Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom.
Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.
By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man.
We can safely abandon the doctrine of the eighties, namely that the rich were not working because they had too little money, the poor because they had much.
Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.
Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.
In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability.
War remains the decisive human failure.
We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect.