In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability. John Kenneth Galbraith Faith
The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled. John Kenneth Galbraith Money
We can safely abandon the doctrine of the eighties, namely that the rich were not working because they had too little money, the poor because they had much. John Kenneth Galbraith Money
There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose. John Kenneth Galbraith Politics
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 Nature
Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom. John Kenneth Galbraith Freedom
The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events. John Kenneth Galbraith Wisdom