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

Quote by John Kenneth Galbraith

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Inflation does not lubricate trade but by rescuing traders from their errors of optimism or...

Inflation does not lubricate trade but by rescuing traders from their errors of optimism or...

Economics is a subject profoundly conducive to cliche, resonant with boredom. On few topics is...

Economics is a subject profoundly conducive to cliche, resonant with boredom. On few topics is...

In economics, the majority is always wrong.

In economics, the majority is always wrong.

Of all classes the rich are the most noticed and the least studied.

Of all classes the rich are the most noticed and the least studied.

The total alteration in underlying circumstances has not been squarely faced, As a result, we...

The total alteration in underlying circumstances has not been squarely faced, As a result, we...

The great dialectic in our time is not, as anciently and by some still supposed,...

The great dialectic in our time is not, as anciently and by some still supposed,...

Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have...

Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have...

When people put their ballots in the boxes, they are, by that act, inoculated against...

When people put their ballots in the boxes, they are, by that act, inoculated against...

In the choice between changing ones mind and proving there's no need to do so,...

In the choice between changing ones mind and proving there's no need to do so,...

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

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

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

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

There's a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a...

There's a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a...

In economics it is a far, far wiser thing to be right than to be...

In economics it is a far, far wiser thing to be right than to be...

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that...

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that...

Few things are more tempting to a writer than to repeat, admiringly, what he has...

Few things are more tempting to a writer than to repeat, admiringly, what he has...

Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need...

Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need...

Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.

Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.

Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has...

Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has...

It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than...

It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than...

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

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