Men Quotes by John Kenneth Galbraith

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

— John Kenneth Galbraith

No hungry man who is also sober can be persuaded to use his last dollar for anything but food.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

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

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Only in very recent times has the average man been a source of savings.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Who is king in the world of the blind when there isn't even a one eyed man?

— John Kenneth Galbraith

One man's consumption becomes his neighbor's wish.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Change comes not from men and women changing their minds, but from the change from one generation to the next.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

No society ever seems to have succumbed to boredom. Man has developed an obvious capacity for surviving the pompous reiteration of the…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Only men of considerable vanity write books; consistently therewith, I worried lest the world were exchanging an irreplaceable author for a more…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Man, at least when educated, is a pessimist. He believes it safer not to reflect on his achievements; Jove is known to…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door. The violence of revolutions is the violence of men who charge…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Washington is a place where men praise courage and act on elaborate personal cost-benefit calculations.

— 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

Men have been swindled by other men on many occasions. The autumn of 1929 was, perhaps, the first occasion when men succeeded…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

These are the days when men of all social disciplines and all political faiths seek the comfortable and the accepted; when the…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

There are a significant number of learned men and women who hold that any successful effort to make ideas lively, intelligible and…

— 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

Complexity and obscurity have professional value - they are the academic equivalents of apprenticeship rules in the building trades. They exclude the…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

The real accomplishment of modern science and technology consists in taking ordinary men, informing them narrowly and deeply and then, through appropriate…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

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

The man who is admired for the ingenuity of his larceny is almost always rediscovering some earlier form of fraud. The basic…

— 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

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

It had been held that the economic system, any capitalist system, found its equilibrium at full employment. Left to itself, it was…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Meetings are held because men seek companionship or, at a minimum, wish to escape the tedium of solitary duties. They yearn for…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Any consideration of the life and larger social existence of the modern corporate man begins and also largely ends with the effect…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Capitalism is chronically unstable.Boom and bust has always marked capitalism in the United States. There were panics in 1785, 1791, 1819, 1857,…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

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

The shortcomings of economics are not original error but uncorrected obsolescence. The obsolescence has occurred because what is convenient has become sacrosanct.…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

We shall have a race of men who are strong on telemetry and space communications but who cannot read anything but a…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Wisdom... is often an abstraction associated not with fact or reality but with the man who asserts it and the manner of…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Clerks in downtown hotels were said to be asking guests whether they wished the room for sleeping or jumping. Two men jumped…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Much of the world's work, it has been said, is done by men who do not feel quite well. Marx is a…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Few things in life can be so appalling as the difference between a dry antiseptic statement of a principle by a well…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

[The] men of the technostructure are the new and universal priesthood. Their religion is business success; their test of virtue is growth…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Over the span of man's history, although a phenomenal amount of education, persuasion, indoctrination and incantation have been devoted to the effort,…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

“The threat to men of great dignity, privilege and pretense is not from the radicals they revile; it is from accepting their…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man's greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source…

— John Kenneth Galbraith