Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted.

Quote by John Kenneth Galbraith

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Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in...

Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in...

Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either...

Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either...

In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire...

In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire...

The great dialectic in our time is not, as anciently and by some still supposed,...

The great dialectic in our time is not, as anciently and by some still supposed,...

Few can believe that suffering, especially by others, is in vain. Anything that is disagreeable...

Few can believe that suffering, especially by others, is in vain. Anything that is disagreeable...

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

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

Few things are more tempting to a writer than to repeat, admiringly, what he has...

Few things are more tempting to a writer than to repeat, admiringly, what he has...

Inflation does not lubricate trade but by rescuing traders from their errors of optimism or...

Inflation does not lubricate trade but by rescuing traders from their errors of optimism or...

The commencement speech is not, I think, a wholly satisfactory manifestation of our culture.

The commencement speech is not, I think, a wholly satisfactory manifestation of our culture.

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

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

Where humor is concerned there are no standards - no one can say what is...

Where humor is concerned there are no standards - no one can say what is...

We are becoming the servants in thought, as in action, of the machine we have...

We are becoming the servants in thought, as in action, of the machine we have...

The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award...

The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award...

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

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

All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door.

All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door.

There are few ironclad rules of diplomacy but to one there is no exception. When...

There are few ironclad rules of diplomacy but to one there is no exception. When...

Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have...

Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have...

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

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

You can't appreciate home till you've left it, money till it's spent, your wife till...

You can't appreciate home till you've left it, money till it's spent, your wife till...

The man who won't loan money isn't going to have many friends - or need...

The man who won't loan money isn't going to have many friends - or need...