The greater the wealth the thicker will be the dirt.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith

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There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith

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Of all classes the rich are the most noticed and the least studied.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith

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The present age of contentment will come to an end only when and if the adverse developments that it fosters challenge the sense of comfortable well-being.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith

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The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith

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Ideas do not respect national frontiers, and this is especially so where language and other traditions are in common.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith

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Meetings are a great trap … they are indispensable when you don’t want to do anything.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith

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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

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When the modern corporation acquires power over markets, power in the community, power over the state and power over belief, it is a political instrument, different in degree but not in kind from the state itself.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith

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If inheritance qualifies one for office, intelligence cannot be a requirement.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith

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