Prestige Quotes - Page 10

• Meetings are held because men seek companionship or, at a minimum, wish to escape the tedium of solitary duties. They yearn for the prestige which accrues to the man who presides over meetings, and this leads them to convoke assemblages over which they can preside. Finally, there is the meeting which is called not because there is business to be done, but because it is necessary to create the impression that business is being done. Such meetings are more than a substitute for action. They are widely regarded as action.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Men, Wish, Done

  John Kenneth Galbraith (2009). “The Great Crash 1929”, p.157, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The Oscar prestige was fine, but I worked more before I was nominated.

  Juanita Moore

  Oscars, Fine

  "'Imitation of Life' Actress Juanita Moore Dies" by Philiana Ng, www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 1, 2014.

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