In the modern economy, a slightly bizarre fact, production is now more necessary for the employment it provides than for the goods and services it su… - John Kenneth Galbraith

There's a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a billion dollars.

In these matters, as often in our culture, it is far, far better to be wrong in a respectable way than to be right for the wrong reasons.

It is a well-established, though perhaps somewhat transparent, technique of argument, on encountering something which cannot easily be reconciled with preferred belief, to point to the exceptions. What does not invariably exist is then held not to exit.