Business Quotes by John Kenneth Galbraith

Private enterprise did not get us atomic energy.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Happiness does not require an expanding economy

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Banking may well be a career from which no man really recovers.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

To add to the technostructure is to increase its power in the enterprise.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

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

— John Kenneth Galbraith

The world of finance hails the invention of the wheel over and over again, often in a slightly more unstable version.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

The modern corporation must manufacture not only goods but the desire for the goods it manufactures.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

The great dialectic in our time is not, as anciently and by some still supposed, between capital and labor; it is between…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Men will look back in amusement at the pretence that once caused people to refer to General Dynamics and North American Aviation…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

The line dividing the state from what is called private enterprise, orat least fromthehighlyorganized part of it, is a traditional fiction.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

In the United States all business not transacted over the telephone is accomplished in conjunction with alcohol or food, often under conditions…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

There is little that can be said about most economic goods. A toothbrush does little but clean teeth. Aspirin does little but…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

The income men derive from producing things of slight consequence is of great consequence. The production reflects the low marginal utility of…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Those who yearn for the end of capitalism should pray for government by men who believe that all positive action is inimical…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Writing is a long and lonesome business; back of the problems in thought and composition hover always the awful questions: Is this…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

The accepted ideas of any period are singularly those that serve the dominant economic interest...What economists believe and teach, whether in the…

— John Kenneth Galbraith