Agreeable as it is to know where one is proceeding, it is far more important to know where one has arrived.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith

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The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith

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

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Economics is not an exact science.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith

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The values of a society totally preoccupied with making money are not altogether reassuring.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith

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

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In the assumption that power belongs as a matter of course to capital, all economists are Marxians.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith

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The first goal of the technostructure is its own security.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith

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The man who is admired for the ingenuity of his larceny is almost always rediscovering some earlier form of fraud. The basic forms are all known, have all been practiced. The manners of capitalism improve. The morals may not.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith

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All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door. The violence of revolutions is the violence of men who charge into a vacuum.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith

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