It was not hard to persuade people that the market was sound; as always in such times they asked only that the… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
People are the common denominator of progress. So... no improvement is possible with unimproved people, and advance is certain when people are… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
There is wonder and a certain wicked pleasure in these giddy ascents and terrible falls, especially as they happen to other people. — 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
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 Copy Share Image
People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
In the choice between changing ones mind and proving there's no need to do so, most people get busy on the proof. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Preservationists are the only people in the world who are invariably confirmed in their wisdom after the fact. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
When people put their ballots in the boxes, they are, by that act, inoculated against the feeling that the government is not… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy. — 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
People are the common denominator of progress; no improvement is possible with unimproved people. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Get the process of negotiation away from the small specialized group that some people have called the "nuclear theologians" ... Only a… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
From the fact of general well-being came the new position of the poor. They were now in most communities a minority. The… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
We have a swarm of people in the stock market - not out of knowledge, not out of expectation, but out of… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Meetings are a great trap. Soon you find yourself trying to get agreement and then the people who disagree come to think… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted. — 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
