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.
Weitere Zitate von John Kenneth Galbraith
Zum Autor"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."
"In economics, it is often professionally better to be associated with highly respectable error than uncertainly established truth."
"In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone."