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.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.
The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought.
Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.
Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted.
Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.
More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.
Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.
