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“Americans had built themselves a world of speculative pipe dreams. That world was inhabited, not by people who had to be convinced, but by people who sought excuses for believing.”
― 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 1929

“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.
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― John Kenneth Galbraith

“If you feed enough oats to the horse, some will pass through to feed the sparrows (referring to "trickle down" economics).”
― John Kenneth Galbraith