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.
John Kenneth Galbraith
More from: John Kenneth Galbraith
DOWNLOAD
You are free to use this picture for any purpose including commercial. A credit linking back to this page is appreciated.
Similar Quotes:
-
Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was. -
If you can kill animals, the same attitude can kill human beings. The mentality is the same which exploits nature and which creates wars. -
Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it. -
He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature. -
Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things, blue waves whitened on a cliff, soaring fire that sways and sings, and children's faces looking up, holding wonder like a cup.
More quotes by John Kenneth Galbraith
- By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man.
- In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.
- Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
- Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
- There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.