Quotes by John Kenneth Galbraith

Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.

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

By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man.

In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.

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.