Quotes by : J. K. Galbraith

Technology means the systematic application of scientific or other organized knowledge to practical tasks.....

Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted.

Humour is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention.....

In economics the majority is always wrong.

In all modern depressions recessions or growth-correction as variously they are called we never miss....

If a man didn't make sense the Scotch felt it was misplaced politeness to try to keep him from knowing....

No intelligence system can predict what a government will do if it doesn't know itself.

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

The more underdeveloped the country the more overdeveloped the women.

Washington is a place where men praise courage and act on elaborate personal cost-benefit calculations.....