Consumerism Quote by John Kenneth Galbraith

The individual serves the industrial system not by supplying it with savings and the resulting capital; he serves it by consuming its products.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Under capitalism each individual engages in economic planning.

— George Reisman

“Operating a household without a budget is akin to operating a business without a plan, without goals, and without direction.”

— Thomas J. Stanley

If people do not consume their whole incomes, the non-consumed surplus can be invested, it increases the amount of capital goods available and thereby…

— Ludwig von Mises

Nothing chastens a planner more than the knowledge that he will have to carry out the plan.

— James M. Gavin

A man is not a financial plan.

— Robert Kiyosaki

The more the state "plans" the more difficult planning becomes for the individual.

— Anonymous

The planner is a potential dictator who wants to deprive all other people of the power to plan and act according to their own…

— Ludwig von Mises

Capitalism does millions of things better than the alternatives. It balances supply and demand in an elegant way that central planning has never come…

— Jeremy Grantham

Millions of individuals making their own decisions in the marketplace will always allocate resources better than any centralized government planning process.

— Ronald Reagan

Planning involves considering how other people may use something.

— Paula Scher

If the people are led to believe that scarce resources are best channeled in a direction that producers and consumers would not choose on…

— Llewellyn Rockwell