John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes About Effort

Quotes about: Effort

• The accepted ideas of any period are singularly those that serve the dominant economic interest...What economists believe and teach, whether in the United States or in the Soviet Union, is rarely hostile to the institutions - the private business enterprise, the Communist Party - that reflect the dominant economic power. Not to notice this takes effort, although many succeed.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Party, Believe, Ideas

• Even the word depression itself was the terminological product of an effort to soften the connotation of deep trouble. In the last century, the term crisis was normally employed. With time, however, this acquired the connotation of the misfortune it described.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Effort, Lasts, Trouble

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1998). “The Affluent Society”, p.38, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• There are a significant number of learned men and women who hold that any successful effort to make ideas lively, intelligible and interesting is a manifestation of deficient scholarship. This is the fortress behind which the minimally coherent regularly find refuge.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Successful, Men, Ideas

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1988). “Economics in Perspective: A Critical History”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Over the span of man's history, although a phenomenal amount of education, persuasion, indoctrination and incantation have been devoted to the effort, ordinary people have never been quite persuaded that toil is as agreeable as its alternatives. Thus to take increased well-being partly in the form of more goods and partly in the form of more leisure is unquestionably rational.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Men, People, Effort

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1971). “The affluent society”

• All, the intelligent and stupid, diligent and idle, have been swept along on a current of increased output that, in the usual case, owed nothing whatever to their efforts.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Stupid, Intelligent, Effort

  John Kenneth Galbraith (2007). “The New Industrial State”, p.431, Princeton University Press

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