01UndatedFew people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted.J. K. Galbraith / quote ↗
02UndatedWashington is a place where men praise courage and act on elaborate personal cost-benefit calculations.J. K. Galbraith / quote ↗
03UndatedI was brought up in southwestern Ontario where we were taught that Canadian patriotism should not withstand anything more than a five-dollar-a-month wage differential. Anything more than that and you went to Detroit.J. K. Galbraith / quote ↗
04UndatedPeople of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage.J. K. Galbraith / quote ↗
06UndatedIn all modern depressions recessions or growth-correction as variously they are called we never miss the goods that are not produced. We miss only the opportunities for the labour - for the jobs - that are not provided.J. K. Galbraith / quote ↗
07UndatedNo intelligence system can predict what a government will do if it doesn't know itself.J. K. Galbraith / quote ↗
08UndatedHumour is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention. But it has no persuasive value at all.J. K. Galbraith / quote ↗
09UndatedIf a man didn't make sense the Scotch felt it was misplaced politeness to try to keep him from knowing it. Better that he be aware of his reputation for this would encourage reticence which goes well with stupidity.J. K. Galbraith / quote ↗
10UndatedThe conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character-building value of privation for the poor.J. K. Galbraith / quote ↗
11UndatedTechnology means the systematic application of scientific or other organized knowledge to practical tasks.J. K. Galbraith / quote ↗
12UndatedThe more underdeveloped the country the more overdeveloped the women.J. K. Galbraith / quote ↗