John Kenneth Galbraith Important Quotations

Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.

Very important functions can be performed very wastefully and often are.

While it will be desirable to achieve planned results, it will be even more important to avoid unplanned disasters.

If people are hungry, ill-clad, unsheltered or diseased, nothing is so important as to remedy their condition.

The questions that are beyond the reach of economics-the beauty, dignity, pleasure and durability of life-may be inconvenient but they are important.

It is a well known and very important fact that America's founding fathers did not like taxation without representation. It is a lesser known and equally important fact that they did not much like taxation with representation.

A more important antidote to American democracy is American gerontocracy. The positions of eminence and authority in Congress are allotted in accordance with length of service, regardless of quality.

Agreeable as it is to know where one is proceeding, it is far more important to know where one has arrived.

It is almost as important to know what is not serious as to know what is.