“I am worried about our tendency to over invest in things and under invest in people.”
John Kenneth Galbraith“John Kenneth Galbraith and Marshall McLuhan are the two greatest modern Canadians that the U.S. has produced.”
Anthony Burgess“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“In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.”
John Kenneth Galbraith“By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man.”
John Kenneth Galbraith“The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.”
John Kenneth Galbraith“Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.”
John Kenneth Galbraith“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“The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled.”
John Kenneth Galbraith“Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.”
John Kenneth Galbraith“There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.”
John Kenneth Galbraith