458 Quotes by John Kenneth Galbraith

In 1736, Franklin's Pennsylvania Gazette printed an apology for its irregular appearence because its printer was "with the Press, labouring for the publick Good, to make Money more plentiful." The press was busy printing money.

All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door. The violence of revolutions is the violence of men who charge into a vacuum.

There's a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a billion dollars.

It was Herbert Spencer, not Charles Darwin, who coined the phrase Survival of the Fittest.

Foresight is an imperfect thing - all prevision in economics is imperfect.

Ideas are inherently conservative. They yield not to the attack of other ideas but to the massive onslaught of circumstance with which they cannot contend.

One of the best ways of avoiding necessary and even urgent tasks is to seem to be busily employed on things that are already done.

In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.

One man's consumption becomes his neighbor's wish.