But now, as throughout history, financial capacity and political perspicacity are inversely correlated. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
A point must be repeated: only the pathological weakness of the financial memory...allows us to believe that the modern experience of....debt...is in… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
I am for a close global association in trade and financial matters, rather than the opposite possibility of excessive nationalism, as manifested… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Financial operations do not lend themselves to innovation. What is recurrently so described and celebrated is, without exception, a small variation on… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
I think without a doubt, that what is called "financial genius" is merely a rising market. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Financial capacity and political perspicacity are inversely correlated. Long-run salvation by men of business has never been highly regarded if it means… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
The foresight of financial experts was, as so often, a poor guide to the future. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
The sense of responsibility in the financial community for the community as a whole is not small. It is nearly nil. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Even in such a time of madness as the late twenties, a great many man in Wall Street remained quite sane. But… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Getting on the cover of TIME guarantees the existence of opposition in the future. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Technology means the systematic application of scientific or other organized knowledge to practical tasks. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
“Men can labor to make sense out of single steps toward the goal without ever pausing to reflect that the goal itself is ludicrous.” — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Consumer wants can have bizarre, frivolous, or even immoral origins, and an admirable case can still be made for a society that seeks to… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
That one never need to look beyond the love of money for explanation of human behavior is one of the most jealously guarded simplification… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Agriculture is one economic activity that does not obey the laws of demand and supply. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
If we were not in Vietnam, all that part of the world would be enjoying the obscurity it so richly deserves. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Washington is a place where men praise courage and act on elaborate personal cost-benefit calculations. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
World War II revealed two of the enduring features of the Keynesian Revolution. One was the moral difference between spending for welfare and spending… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Money is what fueled the industrial society. But in the informational society, the fuel, the power, is knowledge. One has now come to see… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
While it will be desirable to achieve planned results, it will be even more important to avoid unplanned disasters. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
