John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes

Celebrity doesn't have anything to do with art or craft. It's about being rich and thinking that you're better than everybody else.

I don't want to sit by the edge, like some other guys who have played their game. Earned money, have nice lifestyles, and don't say anything.

A rich man's joke is always funny.

I am rich enough.

I always have the best of everything.

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

I hate the noise and hurry inseparable from great Estates and Titles, and look upon both as blessings that ought only to be given to fools, for 'Tis only to them that they are blessings.

You know what we say in the Hamptons: If you have to come out on a Friday afternoon or go back on a Sunday night, you're not rich enough to have a house there. So, you have to be able to come and go when you feel like it in the Hamptons.

Hollywood people are filled with guilt: white guilt, liberal guilt, money guilt. They feel bad that they're so rich, they feel they don't work that much for all that money - and they don't, for the amount of money they make.

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

Money doesn't buy class.

Philosophers are men hired by the well-to-do to prove that everything is all right.

The rich make you famous; the poor make you a hero.

[Describing John F. Kennedy:] The enviably attractive nephew who sings an Irish ballad for the company and then disappears before the table-clearing and dishwashing begin.

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

Tradition has it that whenever a group of people has tasted the lovely fruits of wealth, security, and prestige, it begins to find it more comfortable to believe in the obvious lie and accept that it alone is entitled to privilege.

It's a little hard not to be an elitist when you're making millions of dollars a year.

I'm a nice middle-class girl.

Giving money doesn't make you an insider. If that's considered being an insider, I guess Donald Trump is an insider. That doesn't make sense.

Flip-flops are a privilege, not a right.

My family was once invited to lunch at a chateau owned by a friend of a friend. As we drove our rental car up to the giant castle, my kids gasped and said, 'They must be rich!'

Being a billionaire is sort of passe.

I'm genuinely, near and dear, truly rich.

Rich clubs, where money doesn't matter... such clubs don't interest me.

Technically, I suppose I was following all the right behavior patterns of a trustafarian.