QUOTES OF THE DAY

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

John Kenneth Galbraith

“The sense of responsibility in the financial community for the community as a whole is not small. It is nearly nil.”

John Kenneth Galbraith, The Great Crash of 1929

“The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.”

John Kenneth Galbraith

“The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.”

John Kenneth Galbraith

“The complaints of the privileged are too often confused with the voice of the masses.”

John Kenneth Galbraith

“All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.”

John Kenneth Galbraith


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