John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes

I want to go down in history.

Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives.

I think in some ways it's good to have at least one thing for which you could be really immortal, you know?

I don't care if I am ever remembered in this sport for anything.

I want to go down in the history books with what I've achieved.

I want my name to be remembered for 1,000 years. That way, I will never be forgotten when I'm done inside the ring.

Fame or infamy, either one is preferable to being forgotten when you have passed from this realm.

When everything else failed, we can still become immortal by making an enormous blunder.

I'm gonna make sure you talk about me, and your grandkids and kids after that gonna know about me...your great grandkids will say "wow, wasn't that a bizarre individual?"

The only greatness for man is immortality.

I don't have any sentimental notion about how people are going to remember me.

When you're famous, you're always famous. It doesn't go away.

The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.

It's not whether you win or lose, it's how many people remember you when you die.

I would like to be forgotten. What's so good about being remembered?

To be remembered at all is an achievement of sorts.

It is better to go down in infamy than to never go down at all.

Just to be remembered is good enough for me. Lots of people are forgotten.

You can become famous but you can't become unfamous. You can become infamous but not unfamous.

History will treat me right.

After I die, I'll be forgotten.

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Some day I will be better remembered.

Of all the delusions that existed, Posthumous Fame was the greatest.

If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth the reading, or do things worth the writing.