John Kenneth Galbraith Needs Quotations

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

The miserable consumption of the poor is partly the result of the ostentatious demands of the rich. There isn't enough for both, and the latter get far more than they need...But could anything seriously be done about it?

That one never need to look beyond the love of money for explanation of human behavior is one of the most jealously guarded simplification of our culture.

Faced with having to change our views or prove that there is no need to do so, most of us immediately get busy on the proof.

It is possible that people need to believe they are unmanaged if they are to be managed effectively.