Goods Quote by John Kenneth Galbraith Download Open image “We do not manufacture wants for goods we do not produce.” — John Kenneth Galbraith ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Goods Inspirational Produce Want
For a variety of reasons, we are not producing at a given level of economic activity the jobs we used to have. — Tim Bishop Copy Share Image
Neither the entrepreneurs nor the farmers nor the capitalists determine what has to be produced. The consumers do that. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
A company that does not produce anything other than money is a poor business — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
The modern corporation must manufacture not only goods but the desire for the goods it manufactures. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Do we want in this nation to lose the backbone of manufacturing in this country? Do we want to be a nation that doesn't… — Jennifer Granholm Copy Share Image
We Americans are interested only in the consumption of our products. We have no interest in how they are produced, or what happens to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We built this country by making things, by producing goods we could sell. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The commerce between India and Africa will be of ideas and services, not of the manufactured goods against raw materials after the fashion of… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
We do not control the trade of our resources, which are an important factor of prosperity for the dominant nations. — Omar Bongo Copy Share Image
Now, what produces a want of demand A refusal to take from other countries the commodities which they produce. — Joseph Hume 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
Humanitarian goods and people must flow in both directions. Gaza cannot and must not be allowed to remain a prison camp. — David Cameron Copy Share Image
One of the Internet's highest-profile companies, Priceline once dreamed of transforming the way consumer goods are bought and sold by offering customers the chance… — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
This is not really currency that circulates. It's like the old joke about expensive vintage wine. Wine prices will go up and once in… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
My illness is one often characterized by dramatic overspending - in my case through frenzied shopping sprees, credit card abuse, excessive hoarding of unnecessary… — Andy Behrman Copy Share Image
I haven't talked to any young artists for a long time. But if we did sit down, I'd definitely tell them my viewpoint. If… — Suzi Quatro Copy Share Image
Now that I'm more middle class, I have access to consumer goods. I do enjoy feminine frippery, feminine doo-da, stuff like that. — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
The US has developed two coordinate governing classes: the one, called 'business,' building cities, manufacturing and distributing goods, and holding complete and autocratic power… — Thurman Arnold Copy Share Image
In reality no food is valued solely for its nutritive power and no garment or house solely for the protection it affords against cold… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Rich widows are the only second-hand goods that sell at prime cost. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
...Individualistic material progress and the desire to gain prestige by coming out on top have taken over from the sense of fellowship, compassion and… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
The whole idea of the pursuit of goods and possessions has completely corrupted the human experience, along with religion, which I think limits the… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Barge traffic on the Mississippi River represents the most efficient, most cost-effective, most environmentally sound means of transporting commodity goods from this region of… — Leonard Boswell Copy Share Image
