John Kenneth Galbraith quotes

" If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error. " # Mistakes

" More die in the United States from too much food that from too little. " # Food and Eating # Death and Dying # America

" Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists. " # Economy and Economics

" The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking. " # Thoughts and Thinking

" Washington is a place where people praise courage and act on elaborate personal cost-benefit calculations. " # Courage

" Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything. " # Meetings

" A person buying ordinary products in a supermarket is in touch with his deepest emotions. " # Pornography

" Few people at the beginning of the ninteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted. " # Truth

" Technology means the systematic application of scientific or other organized knowledge to practical tasks. " # Science and Scientists

" The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable. " # Superstition