458 Quotes by John Kenneth Galbraith

Why is anything intrinsically so valueless so obviously desirable?

When everything else failed, we can still become immortal by making an enormous blunder...

In the conventional wisdom of conservatives, the modern search for security is regularly billed as the greatest single threat to economic progress.

In dealing with Mr. Nixon, it is not easy to be unfair. He invites and justifies all available criticism.

In the United States all business not transacted over the telephone is accomplished in conjunction with alcohol or food, often under conditions of advanced intoxication. This is a fact of the utmost importance for the visitor of limited funds... for it means that the most expensive restaurants are, with rare exceptions, the worst.

I think without a doubt, that what is called "financial genius" is merely a rising market.

With the American failure came world failure.

Smoking dope and hanging up Che's picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps. A revolution in consciousness is an empty high without a revolution in the distribution of power.

Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man's greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source of anxiety. Over all history it has oppressed nearly all people in one of two ways: either it has been abundant and very unreliable, or reliable and very scarce.