John Kenneth Galbraith

Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has…

In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority…

We can safely abandon the doctrine of the eighties, namely that the rich were not…

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory…

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

All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness…

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy that…

In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire…

Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in…

Meetings are indispensable when you don’t want to do anything…

There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth…

The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award…

One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not…

There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose…

By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the…