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Wirtschaftswissenschafter, Professor an der Harvard-University, "The Affluent Society / Gesellschaft im Überfluß", "The New Industrial State / Die moderne Industriegesellschaft", "The Good Society / Die Solidarische Gesellschaft" (USA, 1908 - 2006).

John Kenneth Galbraith · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum

John Kenneth Galbraith wäre heute 115 Jahre, 11 Monate, 20 Tage oder 42.359 Tage alt.

Geboren am 15.10.1908 in Iona Station/Ontario
Gestorben am 29.04.2006 in Cambridge/Massachusetts
Sternzeichen: ♎ Waage

• Wenn man erst einmal die Auffassung vom Gewinnstreben als alleinigem Ziel fallenläßt, öffnet man neuen, unbequemen und manchmal recht verwirrenden Ideen Tür und Tor. Dann erst wird klar, wie klug die Traditionalisten daran getan haben, sich an ihre Formeln zu klammern, um solche Ideen auszuschließen.
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• Banking may well be a career from which no man really recovers.

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• Economists are economical, among other things, of ideas; most make those of their graduate days do for a lifetime.

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• If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.

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• If anything is evident about people who manage money, it is that the task attracts a very low level of talent, one that is protected in its highly imperfect profession by the mystery that is thought to enfold the subject of economics in general and of money in particular.

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• It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought.

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• Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man's greatest source of joy. And with his death as his greatest source of anxiety.

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• More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.

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• Nostalgia combines regularly with manifest respectability to give credence to old error as opposed to new truth.

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• Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

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• That the love of money is the root of all evil can, conceivably, be disputed. What is not in doubt is that the pursuit of money, or an enduring association with it, is capable of inducing not only bizarre but ripely perverse behavior.

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• The greater the wealth, the thicker will be the dirt.

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• The happiest time in anyone's life is just after the first divorce.

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• There are good reasons why men possessed of money, like men earlier favored with noble birth and great title, imagine that the awe and admiration that wealth inspires derive from their own wisdom of personalities. The contrast between their view of themselves, as so enhanced, and the frequently ridiculous or depraved reality, has ever been a source of wonder or amusement.

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• These are the days when men of all social disciplines and all political faiths seek the comfortable and the accepted; when the man of controversy is looked upon as a disturbing influence; when originality is taken to be a mark of instability; and when, in minor modification of the scriptural parable, the bland lead the bland.

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• Unemployment is rarely considered desirable except by those who have not experienced it.

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• Very specific and personal misfortune awaits those who presume to believe that the future is revealed to them.

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• Wisdom, itself, is often an abstraction associated not with fact or reality, but with the man who asserts it and the manner of its assertion.

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