John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• I've been a faithful reader of the great classical documents of economics, or tried to be. The first book in the field that I ever read was Principles of Economics by Alfred Marshall. I suppose subsequently I would have to pick out Keynes, Adam Smith, Marx.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Book, Faithful, Fields

  Source: www.progressive.org

• If you're rich you can buy books. If you're poor, you need a library.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Book, Library, Needs

• A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance; but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Book, Reading, Ignorance

• Only men of considerable vanity write books; consistently therewith, I worried lest the world were exchanging an irreplaceable author for a more easily purchased diplomat.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Book, Writing, Men

  "The New Industrial State". Foreword to the book by John Kenneth Galbraith, p. 7, 1967.

• I've been writing a book called The Economics of Innocent Fraud. I published part of it already in The Progressive ("Free Market Fraud," January 1999). But I've been interrupted these last few months. It deals with all of the things we do, in an innocent way, to cover up the truth.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Book, Writing, Way

  Source: progressive.org

• I never enjoyed writing a book more; indeed, it is the only one I remember in no sense as a labor but as a joy.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Book, Writing, Joy

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1980). “The Great Crash 1929”

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