John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes About Wall

Quotes about: Wall

• Even in such a time of madness as the late twenties, a great many man in Wall Street remained quite sane. But they also remained very quiet. The sense of responsibility in the financial community for the community as a whole is not small. It is nearly nil. Perhaps this is inherent. In a community where the primary concern is making money, one of the necessary rules is to live and let live. To speak out against madness may be to ruin those who have succumbed to it. So the wise in Wall Street are nearly always silent. The foolish thus have the field to themselves. None rebukes them.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Wise, Wall, Responsibility

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1955). “The great crash, 1929”

• In 1929 the discovery of the wonders of the geometric series struck Wall Street with a force comparable to the invention of the wheel.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Wall, Discovery, Wheels

  John Kenneth Galbraith (2009). “The Great Crash 1929”, p.76, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• No one was responsible for the great Wall Street crash. No one engineered the speculation that preceded it. Both were the product of free choice and decision of hundreds of thousands of individuals.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Wall, Decision, Choices

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1955). “The great crash, 1929”

• The stock market is but a mirror which provides an image of the underlying or fundamental economic situation. Cause and effect run from the economy to the stock market, never the reverse. In 1929 the economy was headed for trouble. Eventually that trouble was violently reflected in Wall Street.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Running, Wall, Mirrors

  John Kenneth Galbraith (2009). “The Great Crash 1929”, p.106, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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