If inheritance qualifies one for office, intelligence cannot be a requirement. — 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
If people are hungry, ill-clad, unsheltered or diseased, nothing is so important as to remedy their condition. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
If all else fails immortality can always be assured by adequate error. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
If anything is evident about people who manage money, it is that the task attracts a very low level of talent, one… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
If a man didn't make sense, the Scotch felt it was misplaced politeness to try to keep him from knowing it. Better… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
We talk of the enormous virtues of work, but it turns out that that is mostly for the poor. If you're rich… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Monetary policy suffers from the unfortunate absence of any occult effect. It has long been clear that economic management...would be greatly facilitated… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Every corner of the public psyche is canvassed by some of the most talented citizens to see if the desire for some… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
The present age of contentment will come to an end only when and if the adverse developments that it fosters challenge the… — 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… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
In the usual (though certainly not in every) public decision on economic policy, the choice is between courses that are almost equally… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
The charge that an idea is radical, impractical, or long- haired is met by showing that a prominent businessman has favored it?an… — 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
More investment trusts securities were offered in September of 1929 even than in August - the total was above $600 million. However,… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Mr. David Stockman has said that supply-side economics was merely a cover for the trickle-down approach to economic policy—what an older and… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
I am not quite sure what the advantage is in having a few more dollars to spend if the air is too… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
I've long believed alas, that in highly organized industrial societies, capitalist or socialist, the stronger tendency is to converge - that if… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
The years of the Great Depression were a superb time for economists because people not knowing what could be done or what… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
If you're rich you can buy books. If you're poor, you need a library. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
It is possible that people need to believe they are unmanaged if they are to be managed effectively. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
No intelligence system can predict what a government will do if it doesn't know itself. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Decision has greater virtue and force if taken after there has been eloquent dissent. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
If you get a reputation for being honest, you have 95 percent of the competition already beat. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Few economic problems, if any, are difficult of solution. The difficulty, all but invariably, is in confronting them. We know what needs… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
If we are concerned about our great appetite for materials, it is plausible to decrease waste, to make better use of stocks… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
In the old days, land was important as the giver of all things. That period is gone now. Technology and brainpower are… — 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
