John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes
A businessman who reads Business Week is lost to fame. One who reads Proust is marked for greatness.
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I don't need to be motivated by anybody. Never have.
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I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me.
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The best restriction I learned was getting into the habit of doing something, even if I didn't feel like it, instead of running away from it. Sometimes good work needs to be earned, and when you can overcome yourself, the muse notices and celebrates.
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There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.
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For me beauty is valued more than anything - the beauty that is manifest in a curved line or in an act of creativity.
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You have to take over your town in order to take over your city.
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You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.
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I got a big mouth.
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What is this world? A mere curl of smoke for the wind to scatter.
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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
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Thrift shopping is all about going into the thrift shop and having no expectation of what you might find.
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It's a very complicated issue, this fame thing - I was not really cut out for it. There are some really fantastic things about it, but it's difficult for a private person like myself.
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I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
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I have opposed the Communist cold war line ever since, both by public utterance and by private help to trade unionists breaking free from the Communist influence.
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AIDS is a plague - numerically, statistically and by any definition known to modern public health - though no one in authority has the guts to call it one.
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Overpaying the banks for their toxic assets could contribute capital, but that may not be politically feasible or attractive.
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People need songs to belt out in the shower. Even if everyone else doesn't need that, I need that.
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I understand the common man because I understand me in that regard at least.
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Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.
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My goal is to always be improving my skills.
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Sometimes I can wake up and I can beat anyone.
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Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.
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It's easier to build a business around a first-class product, even if it's a more expensive product to produce.
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A businessman who reads Business Week is lost to fame. One who reads Proust is marked for greatness.
