John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes About Opportunity

Quotes about: Opportunity

• There is an insistent tendency among serious social scientists to think of any institution which features rhymed and singing commercials, intense and lachrymose voices urging highly improbable enjoyment, caricatures of the human esophagus in normal and impaired operation, and which hints implausibly at opportunities for antiseptic seduction as inherently trivial. This is a great mistake. The industrial system is profoundly dependent on commercial television and could not exist in its present form without it.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Mistake, Science, Opportunity

  "The New Industrial State". Book by John Kenneth Galbraith. Chapter XVIII, Section 5, p. 208, 1967.

• It is the good fortune of the affluent country that the opportunity cost of economic discussion is low and hence it can afford all kinds.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Country, Opportunity, Cost

  1971 Economics, Peace, and Laughter.

• In all modern depressions, recessions, or growth-correction, as variously they are called, we never miss the goods that are not produced. We miss only the opportunities for the labour - for the jobs - that are not provided.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Jobs, Opportunity, Missing

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