John Kenneth Galbraith Organization Quotations

Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.

You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too.

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

Any consideration of the life and larger social existence of the modern corporate man begins and also largely ends with the effect of one all-embracing force. That is organization - the highly structured assemblage of men, and now some women, of which he is a part. It is to this, at the expense of family, friends, sex, recreation and sometimes health and effective control of alcoholic intake, that he is expected to devote his energies.

Nothing in our time is more interesting than the erstwhile capitalist corporation and the erstwhile Communist firm should, under the imperatives of organization, come together as oligarchies of their own members.

Men are, in fact, either sustained by organization or they sustain organization.

There is no name for all who participate in group decision-making or the organization which they form. I propose to call this organization the Technostructure.