John Kenneth Galbraith
John Kenneth Galbraith

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.

John Kenneth Galbraith
John Kenneth Galbraith

Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.

John Kenneth Galbraith
John Kenneth Galbraith

The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.

John Kenneth Galbraith
John Kenneth Galbraith

Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.

John Kenneth Galbraith
John Kenneth Galbraith

Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.

John Kenneth Galbraith
John Kenneth Galbraith

All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.

John Kenneth Galbraith
John Kenneth Galbraith

Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.

John Kenneth Galbraith
John Kenneth Galbraith

Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

John Kenneth Galbraith
John Kenneth Galbraith

In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability.

John Kenneth Galbraith
John Kenneth Galbraith

The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled.

John Kenneth Galbraith
John Kenneth Galbraith

Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.

John Kenneth Galbraith
John Kenneth Galbraith

If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.

John Kenneth Galbraith
John Kenneth Galbraith

The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself.

John Kenneth Galbraith
John Kenneth Galbraith

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth Galbraith
John Kenneth Galbraith

It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought.

John Kenneth Galbraith
John Kenneth Galbraith

More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.

John Kenneth Galbraith
John Kenneth Galbraith

We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect.

John Kenneth Galbraith
John Kenneth Galbraith

If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.

John Kenneth Galbraith
John Kenneth Galbraith

Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.

John Kenneth Galbraith
John Kenneth Galbraith

In economics, the majority is always wrong.