John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes About Business
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Banking may well be a career from which no man really recovers.
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The world of finance hails the invention of the wheel over and over again, often in a slightly more unstable version.
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Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
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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.
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The modern corporation must manufacture not only goods but the desire for the goods it manufactures.
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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.
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Happiness does not require an expanding economy
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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.
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