John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes:
Ocupation: Economist
Life: October 15, 1908 - April 29, 2006
Birthday: October 15
Death: April 29
Meetings are held because men seek companionship or, at a minimum, wish to escape the tedium of solitary duties. They yearn for the prestige which accrues to the man who presides over meetings, and this leads them to convoke assemblages over which they can preside. Finally, there is the meeting which is called not because there is business to be done, but because it is necessary to create the impression that business is being done. Such meetings are more than a substitute for action. They are widely regarded as action.
source: John Kenneth Galbraith (2009). “The Great Crash 1929”, p.157, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
topic: Men, Wish, Done, Tedium, Assemblage
