John Kenneth Galbraith
“Under capitalism, the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.”
“Meetings are indispensable when you don’t want to do anything.”
“Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.”
“Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.”
“Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.”
“The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.”