Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted.
John Kenneth GalbraithThe Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.
John Kenneth GalbraithIf a man didn't make sense, the Scotch felt it was misplaced politeness to try to keep him from knowing it. Better that he be aware of his reputation, for this would encourage reticence which goes well with stupidity.
John Kenneth GalbraithThis is a world inhabited not by people who have to be persuaded to believe but by people who want an excuse to believe.
John Kenneth GalbraithIn the market economy the price that is offered is counted upon to produce the result that is sought.
John Kenneth GalbraithAmong all the world's races, some obscure Bedouin tribes possibly apart, Americans are the most prone to misinformation. This is not the consequence of any special preference for mendacity, although at the higher levels of their public administration that tendency is impressive. It is rather that so much of what they themselves believe is wrong.
John Kenneth Galbraith