458 Quotes by John Kenneth Galbraith

Ideas do not respect national frontiers, and this is especially so where language and other traditions are in common.

It takes some skill to spoil a breakfast - even the English can't do it.

People are the common denominator of progress; no improvement is possible with unimproved people.

Agriculture is one economic activity that does not obey the laws of demand and supply.

Third party politics, at least since La Follette, has always had an element of romance.

All, the intelligent and stupid, diligent and idle, have been swept along on a current of increased output that, in the usual case, owed nothing whatever to their efforts.

There are days when the result is so bad that no fewer than five revisions are required. In contrast, when I'm greatly inspired, only four revisions are needed.

It is a well known and very important fact that America's founding fathers did not like taxation without representation. It is a lesser known and equally important fact that they did not much like taxation with representation.

Wisdom... is often an abstraction associated not with fact or reality but with the man who asserts it and the manner of its assertion.