"Meetings are indispensable when you don’t want to do anything." ― John Kenneth Galbraith Topic(s): Business More From John Kenneth Galbraith "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." "More die in the United States of too much food than of too little." "By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man." More In Business "Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming."― Richard Branson "When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact."― Warren Buffett "We’re parents first, and once you have kids, everybody knows that you have priority lists. Number one is your family and everything else just kind of finds its place."― Tim McGraw