John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes About Business

Quotes about: Business

• 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.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Business, Awards, Achievement

  Annals of an Abiding Liberal ch. 6 (1979)

• Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Change, Business, Organization

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1969). “Ambassador's Journal”

• The income men derive from producing things of slight consequence is of great consequence. The production reflects the low marginal utility of the goods to society. The income reflects the high total utility of a livelihood to a person.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Business, Men, Income

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1998). “The Affluent Society”, p.217, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• The modern corporation must manufacture not only goods but the desire for the goods it manufactures.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Business, Desire, Corporations

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1998). “The Affluent Society”, p.225, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Happiness does not require an expanding economy

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Business, Doe, Management

• Banking may well be a career from which no man really recovers.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Business, Men, Careers

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1969). “Ambassador's Journal”

• There is little that can be said about most economic goods. A toothbrush does little but clean teeth. Aspirin does little but dull pain. Alcohol is important mostly for making people more or less drunk ... There being so little to be said, much is to be invented.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Pain, Business, Drunk

• The world of finance hails the invention of the wheel over and over again, often in a slightly more unstable version.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Business, Investing, World

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1994). “A Short History of Financial Euphoria”, p.21, Penguin

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