458 Quotes by John Kenneth Galbraith

Economists, on the whole, think well of what they do themselves and much less well of what their professional colleagues do.

We talk of the enormous virtues of work, but it turns out that that is mostly for the poor. If you're rich enough or if you're a college professor, the virtue lies in leisure and the use you make of your leisure time.

In the autumn of 1929 the mightiest of Americans were, for a brief time, revealed as human beings.

It is not the individual's right to buy that is being protected. Rather, it is the seller's right to manage the individual.

Authorship of any sort is a fantastic indulgence of the ego.

To see economic policy as a problem of choice between rival ideologies is the greatest error of our time.

THE GENIUS of the industrial system lies in its organized use of capital and technology. This is made possible, as we have duly seen, by extensively replacing the market with planning.

When people are least sure, they are often most dogmatic.

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