John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes

The rich get richer. Not only because they have surpluses with which to invest, but because of the overriding emotional release they experience from having wealth.

It's easy to say you don't care about money when you have plenty of it.

Wealthy people have not disappeared, they are just not so willing to show off their wealth.

All of the religions are looking after the poor. At least leave me alone to look after the rich. I am the rich man's guru.

I'm enjoying the money, the big house, the cars; what ghetto kid wouldn't?

I am a capitalist—a rich businessman and most of you are not.

I grew up in a lot of different places. I always saw the bigger picture. I was around rich kids with country houses and private jets. No disrespect to those people, but I never thought they were super geniuses. I couldn't see how I wasn't going to have those things, too.

The rich man has his motorcar, His country and his town estate, He smokes a fifty-cent cigar And jeers at Fate. He frivols through the livelong day, He knows not Poverty, her pinch. His lot seems light, his heart seems gay; He has a cinch. Yet though my lamp burns low and dim, Though I must slave for livelihood- Think you that I would change with him? You bet I would!

Them that's got shall get, Them that's not shall lose. So the Bible says, And it still is news. Mama may have, Papa may have, But God bless the child that's got his own.

If you know how rich you are, you are not rich. But me, I am not aware of the extent of my wealth. That's how rich we are.

Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.

We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.

Having money is rather like being a blond. It is more fun but not vital.

I am fairly rich. Money's very handy, let's face it.

I have a feeling that life as a billionaire in Silicon Valley is very different than the life that you or I would lead. Unless you're a billionaire; I don't know your financial situation.

False shame accompanies a man that is poor, shame that either harms a man greatly or profits him; shame is with poverty, but confidence with wealth.

Everyone is encouraged to see their lives, the world through the eyes of the rich.

I'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.

I've always been interested in this idea of a privileged life, probably because it's something I hadn't seen much of.

There's often an assumption you're more privileged if you belong to a family with people who have made a success.

I don't care what anyone says. Being rich is a good thing.

I'm the son of a former billionaire, but I'm just a working man.

A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

There's a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.

For rich children, it'd be very easy and convenient never to take any steps to build an identity outside of your association with your family's wealth.