Rich Quotes by John Kenneth Galbraith

Of all classes the rich are the most noticed and the least studied.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

If you're rich you can buy books. If you're poor, you need a library.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

In the affluent society, no useful distinction can be made between luxuries and necessities.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Nothing is more portable than rich people and their money

— John Kenneth Galbraith

“The process by which money is created is so simple that the mind is repelled.”

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

The individual serves the planning system not by supplying it with savings and the resulting capital; he serves it far more by…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Economic stimulation that works through the increased outlays to the affluent has, inevitably, an aspect of soundness and sanity that is lacking…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

We can safely abandon the doctrine of the eighties, namely that the rich were not working because they had too little money,…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Poverty" Pitt exclaimed "is no disgrace but it is damned annoying." In the contemporary United States it is not annoying but it…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

The miserable consumption of the poor is partly the result of the ostentatious demands of the rich. There isn't enough for both,…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

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

A [New Yorker ] is what it has always been. It combines those who pursue the truth with those who pursue the…

— 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

There is a common tendency to ignore the poor or to develop some rationalisation for the good fortune of the fortunate.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

We now in the United States have more security guards for the rich than we have police services for the poor districts.…

— John Kenneth Galbraith