John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes About Wealth

Quotes about: Wealth

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

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Wealth, Prosperity, Finance

  "The Sydney Morning Herald" Newspaper, May 22, 1982.

• The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Character, Wealth, Building

• The greater the wealth the thicker will be the dirt.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Political, Politics, Dirt

  'The Affluent Society' (1958) ch. 18, sect. 2

• In the affluent society, no useful distinction can be made between luxuries and necessities.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Luxury, Wealth, Made

  'The Affluent Society' (1958) ch. 21

• The ideas by which people . . . interpret their existence and in measure guide their behavior, were not forged in a world of wealth.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Ideas, People, World

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1998). “The Affluent Society”, p.13, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Wealth, Prosperity, Finance

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1998). “The Affluent Society”, p.1, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Let’s begin with capitalism, a word that has gone largely out of fashion. The approved reference now is to the market system. This shift minimizes - indeed, deletes - the role of wealth in the economic and social system. And it sheds the adverse connotation going back to Marx. Instead of the owners of capital or their attendants in control, we have the admirably impersonal role of market forces. It would be hard to think of a change in terminology more in the interest of those to whom money accords power. They have now a functional anonymity.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Fashion, Thinking, Would Be

  "John Kenneth Galbraith: Free Market Fraud' by John Kenneth Galbraith, progressive.org. April 12, 2006.

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