7 John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes on Wealth

John Kenneth Galbraith quotes on wealth

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

8. In a community where public services have failed to keep abreast of private consumption things are very different. Here, in an atmosphere of private opulence and public squalor, the private goods have full sway.

28. Of all classes the rich are the most noticed and the least studied.

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

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

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

80. Trickle-down theory - the less than elegant metaphor that if one feeds the horse enough oats, some will pass through to the road for the sparrows.