If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.

- John Kenneth Galbraith

The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

- John Kenneth Galbraith

Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.

- John Kenneth Galbraith

More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.

- John Kenneth Galbraith

Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.

- John Kenneth Galbraith

Humor 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.

- John Kenneth Galbraith

The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

- John Kenneth Galbraith

We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect.

- John Kenneth Galbraith

All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door.

- John Kenneth Galbraith

The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself.

- John Kenneth Galbraith

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

- John Kenneth Galbraith

Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

- John Kenneth Galbraith

In the choice between changing ones mind and proving there's no need to do so, most people get busy on the proof.

- John Kenneth Galbraith

A person buying ordinary products in a supermarket is in touch with his deepest emotions.

- John Kenneth Galbraith

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

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

Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.

- John Kenneth Galbraith

The great dialectic in our time is not, as anciently and by some still supposed, between capital and labor; it is between economic enterprise and the state.

- John Kenneth Galbraith

Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.

- John Kenneth Galbraith

War remains the decisive human failure.

- John Kenneth Galbraith