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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. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

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Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

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

— John Kenneth Galbraith

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It has been the acknowledged right of every Marxist scholar to read into Marx the particular meaning that he himself prefers and to treat all others with indignation. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

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In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

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Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

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You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

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In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

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In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

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People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

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