6 John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes on Money

John Kenneth Galbraith quotes on money

27. The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled.

29. The man who is admired for the ingenuity of his larceny is almost always rediscovering some earlier form of fraud. The basic forms are all known, have all been practiced. The manners of capitalism improve. The morals may not.

31. Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man's greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source of anxiety. Over all history it has oppressed nearly all people in one of two ways: either it has been abundant and very unreliable, or reliable and very scarce.

44. The huge capacity to purchase submission that goes with any large sum of money, well, this we have. This is a power of which we should all be aware.

54. There's a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a billion dollars.

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