John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes

"More die in the United States of too much food than of too little."
-John Kenneth Galbraith in Food quotes.

"Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything."
-John Kenneth Galbraith

"Where humor is concerned there are no standards - no one can say what is good or bad, although you can be sure that everyone will."
-John Kenneth Galbraith in Humor quotes.

"You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too."
-John Kenneth Galbraith in Government quotes.

"Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory."
-John Kenneth Galbraith in Politics quotes.

"There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting."
-John Kenneth Galbraith in Beauty quotes.

"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 in Leadership quotes.

"If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error."
-John Kenneth Galbraith in Immortality quotes.

"It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled sea of thought."
-John Kenneth Galbraith

"Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite."
-John Kenneth Galbraith in Communism quotes.

"In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong."
-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

"The happiest time of anyone's life is just after the first divorce."
-John Kenneth Galbraith

"The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking."
-John Kenneth Galbraith

"Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue."
-John Kenneth Galbraith

"The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable."
-John Kenneth Galbraith

"We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect."
-John Kenneth Galbraith