{"author":"John Kenneth Galbraith","author_id":"John+Kenneth+Galbraith","total_quotes":58,"quotes":[{"text":"In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.","author":"John Kenneth Galbraith","tags":["great","organization","right "],"id":4374,"author_id":"John+Kenneth+Galbraith"},{"text":"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.","author":"John Kenneth Galbraith","tags":["achievement","award","salary "],"id":12424,"author_id":"John+Kenneth+Galbraith"},{"text":"Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention, but it has no persuasive value at all.","author":"John Kenneth Galbraith","tags":["value","attention","person "],"id":17162,"author_id":"John+Kenneth+Galbraith"},{"text":"In economics, it is often professionally better to be associated with highly respectable error than uncertainly established truth.","author":"John Kenneth Galbraith","tags":["economics"],"id":24541,"author_id":"John+Kenneth+Galbraith"},{"text":"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness... \u0026 ... Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.–.","author":"John Kenneth Galbraith","tags":["altruism","conservative","liberal","libertarian","politics","progressive","selfishness"],"id":25598,"author_id":"John+Kenneth+Galbraith"},{"text":"Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.","author":"John Kenneth Galbraith","tags":["economics","intelligence","wealth"],"id":47946,"author_id":"John+Kenneth+Galbraith"},{"text":"When people are least sure  they are often most dogmatic.","author":"John Kenneth Galbraith","tags":["creating","positive","change"],"id":69245,"author_id":"John+Kenneth+Galbraith"},{"text":"Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom.","author":"John Kenneth Galbraith","tags":["people","criticism","laziness "],"id":77353,"author_id":"John+Kenneth+Galbraith"},{"text":"By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man.","author":"John Kenneth Galbraith","tags":["age","man","small "],"id":85435,"author_id":"John+Kenneth+Galbraith"},{"text":"In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability.","author":"John Kenneth Galbraith","tags":["faith","deep","great "],"id":93304,"author_id":"John+Kenneth+Galbraith"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":58,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}