That one never need to look beyond the love of money for explanation of human behavior is one of the most jealously… — 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… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
One can relish the varied idiocy of human action during a panic to the full, for, while it is a time of… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
What was needed was a policy that increased the supply of money available for use and then ensured its use. Then the… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
The huge capacity to purchase submission that goes with any large sum of money, well, this we have. This is a power… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
“In many ways the effect of the crash on embezzlement was more significant than on suicide. To the economist embezzlement is the… — 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
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 Copy Share Image
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
The study of money, above all other fields in economics, is one in which complexity is used to disguise truth or to… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
There can be few fields of human endeavor in which history counts for so little as in the world of finance.Past experience,… — 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
“The oldest problem in economic education is how to exclude the incompetent. A certain glib mastery of verbiage-the ability to speak portentously… — 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
The attraction of power we take for granted in politics.. But in economics...the thrust...is for pecuniary return, for money. And I have… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
The study of money, above all other fields in economics, is one in which complexity is used to disguise truth or to… — 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 process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Truth has anciently been called the first casualty of war. Money may, in fact, have priority. — 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
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
