Famous Quotes / John Kenneth Galbraith
71 Quotations by John Kenneth Galbraith
- 21. In the usual (though certainly not in every) public decision on economic policy, the choice is betwe ...
- 22. Increasingly in recent times we have come first to identify the remedy that is most agreeable, most ...
- 23. It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas ...
- 24. It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is ...
- 25. Man, at least when educated, is a pessimist. He believes it safer not to reflect on his achievements ...
- 26. Meetings are a great trap. Soon you find yourself trying to get agreement and then the people who di ...
- 27. Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
- 28. Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.
- 29. Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and tho ...
- 30. Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man's greatest source of joy. And with death as his ...
- 31. More die in the United States from too much food that from too little.
- 32. Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grav ...
- 33. Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.
- 34. Of all classes the rich are the most noticed and the least studied.
- 35. Once the visitor was told rather repetitively that this city was the melting pot; never before in hi ...
- 36. Once the visitor was told rather repetitively that this city was the melting pot; never before in hi ...
- 37. One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.
- 38. People are the common denominator of progress. So... no improvement is possible with unimproved peop ...
- 39. People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy.
- 40. Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpa ...