Top 60 Quotes by John Kenneth Galbraith

In the choice between changing ones mind and proving there's no need to do so, most people get busy on the proof.

The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

There's a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a billion dollars.

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

There are few ironclad rules of diplomacy but to one there is no exception. When an official reports that talks were useful, it can safely be concluded that nothing was accomplished.

The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.

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.

All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door.

You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too.