The great dialectic in our time is not, as anciently and by some still supposed, between capital and labor; it is between economic enterprise and the… - John Kenneth Galbraith

In recent times the no-business meeting at the White House — attended by governors, industrialists, representatives of business, labor, and agriculture — has become an established institution of government.

Few things in life can be so appalling as the difference between a dry antiseptic statement of a principle by a well spoken man in a quiet office, and what happens to people when that principle is put into practice.

Wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding. The poor man has always a precise view of his problem and its remedy: he hasn't enough and needs more.