John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes About Decisions

Quotes about: Decisions

• A wrong decision isn't forever; it can always be reversed. The losses from a delayed decision are forever; they can never be retrieved.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Loss, Decision, Forever

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1981). “A life in our times: memoirs”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• In the usual (though certainly not in every) public decision on economic policy, the choice is between courses that are almost equally good or equally bad. It is the narrowest decisions that are most ardently debated. If the world is lucky enough to enjoy peace, it may even one day make the discovery, to the horror of doctrinaire free-enterprisers and doctrinaire planners alike, that what is called capitalism and what is called socialism are both capable of working quite well.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Peace, Discovery, Choices

  "Years of the Modern". Book by by J.W. Chase, 1949.

• There is no name for all who participate in group decision-making or the organization which they form. I propose to call this organization the Technostructure.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Names, Organization, Decision

  John Kenneth Galbraith (2001). “The Essential Galbraith”, p.76, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• No one was responsible for the great Wall Street crash. No one engineered the speculation that preceded it. Both were the product of free choice and decision of hundreds of thousands of individuals.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Wall, Decision, Choices

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1955). “The great crash, 1929”

• Decision has greater virtue and force if taken after there has been eloquent dissent.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Taken, Decision, Virtue

  John Kenneth Galbraith (2001). “Name-Dropping: From FDR On”, p.186, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• In the usual (though certainly not in every) public decision on economic policy, the choice is between courses that are almost equally good or equally bad. It is the narrowest decisions that are most ardently debated.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Choices, Decision, Usual

  "Years of the Modern". Book by J.W. Chase, 1949.

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