John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes
Most popular John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes
Banking is a career from which no man really recovers.
When people are least sure, they are often most dogmatic.
Authorship of any sort is a fantastic indulgence of the ego.
Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door.
The happiest time of anyone's life is just after the first divorce.
Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.
If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.
We are becoming the servants in thought, as in action, of the machine we have created to serve us.
There are two kinds of forecasters: those who don't know, and those who don't know they don't know.
Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted.
Few things are as immutable as the addiction of political groups to the ideas by which they have won office.
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought.
Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.
The drive toward complex technical achievement offers a clue to why the U.S. is good at space gadgetry and bad at slum problems.
All writers know that on some golden mornings they are touched by the wand; they are on intimate terms with poetry and cosmic truth.
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
A wrong decision isn't forever; it can always be reversed. The losses from a delayed decision are forever; they can never be retrieved.
Wealth is not without its advantages, and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
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.
All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.
Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man's greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source of anxiety. Over all history it has oppressed nearly all people in one of two ways: either it has been abundant and very unreliable, or reliable and very scarce.
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
The drive toward complex technical achievement offers a clue to why the US is good at space gadgetry and bad at slum problems.
