Inspirational Quotes by John Kenneth Galbraith

Conscience is better served by a myth.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Some things were never meant to be recycled.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Power is as power does.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Nothing so weakens a government as inflation.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

With the American failure came world failure.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Economics is not an exact science.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

It's much easier to point out the problem than it is to say just how it should be solved.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Anyone who says he won't resign four times, will.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

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

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Educators have yet to realize how deeply the industrial system is dependent upon them.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

When people are least sure, they are often most dogmatic.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

If inheritance qualifies one for office, intelligence cannot be a requirement.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

It is in the long run that the corporation lives.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Foresight is an imperfect thing - all prevision in economics is imperfect.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Economic life, as always, is a matrix in which result becomes cause and cause becomes result.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

The experience of being disastrously wrong is salutary, no economist should be denied it, and not many are.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

It takes a certain brashness to attack the accepted economic legendsbut noneat all toperpetuatethem. So theyare perpetuated.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Originality is something that is easily exaggerated, especially by authors contemplating their own work.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

But it can be laid down as a rule that those who speak most of liberty are least inclined to use it.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

You roll back the stones, and you find slithering things. That is the world of Richard Nixon.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

In the assumption that power belongs as a matter of course to capital, all economists are Marxians.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

The urge to consume is fathered by the value system which emphasizes the ability of the society to produce.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Why is anything intrinsically so valueless so obviously desirable?

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Private enterprise did not get us atomic energy.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

The more underdeveloped the country, the more overdeveloped the women.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

We do not manufacture wants for goods we do not produce.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Men are, in fact, either sustained by organization or they sustain organization.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Very important functions can be performed very wastefully and often are.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

I am worried about our tendency to over invest in things and under invest in people.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

The privileged have regularly invited their own destruction with their greed.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

It was Herbert Spencer, not Charles Darwin, who coined the phrase Survival of the Fittest.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

It takes some skill to spoil a breakfast - even the English can't do it.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Much discussion of money involves a heavy overlay of priestly incantation.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Speeches in our culture are the vacuum that fills a vacuum.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Nothing is more portable than rich people and their money

— John Kenneth Galbraith

It is almost as important to know what is not serious as to know what is.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

The first goal of the technostructure is its own security.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

The happiest time of anyone's life is just after the first divorce.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

The greater the wealth the thicker will be the dirt.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Any country that has Milton Friedman as an adviser has nothing to fear from a few million Arabs.

— John Kenneth Galbraith