“There's a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a billion dollars.”
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Famous John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes
Source: the new industrial state
Source: The affluent society
“If all else fails immortality can always be assured by adequate error.”
“In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.”
“Of all classes the rich are the most noticed and the least studied.”
“One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.”
“Power is not something that can be assumed or discarded at will like underwear.”
Source: the new industrial state
“The commencement speech is not, I think, a wholly satisfactory manifestation of our culture.”
“The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.”
Source: The affluent society
“The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.”
Source: The affluent society
Source: The Essential Galbraith
Source: Economics in Perspective: A Critical History
Source: THE GREAT CRASH 1929
Source: The affluent society
Source: The affluent society
Source: the new industrial state
Source: the new industrial state
Source: the new industrial state
Source: the new industrial state
Source: the new industrial state
“Why is anything intrinsically so valueless so obviously desirable?”
Source: Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went
“With the American failure came world failure.”
Source: Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went
Source: Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went
“Much discussion of money involves a heavy overlay of priestly incantation.”
Source: THE GREAT CRASH 1929
Source: The affluent society
Source: The affluent society
“It is in the long run that the corporation lives.”
Source: The affluent society
“Very important functions can be performed very wastefully and often are.”
Source: The affluent society
“Only in very recent times has the average man been a source of savings.”
Source: the new industrial state