John Kenneth Galbraith
17 quotations
In economics the majority is always wrong.
The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.
More die in the United States from too much food that from too little.
In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.
There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth.
Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect.
There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.
Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.
In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.
Of all classes the rich are the most noticed and the least studied.
There's a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a billion dollars.
People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy.
Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.
The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.
One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.
The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.