Quotes of Thorstein Veblen - somelinesforyou

“ No one travelling on a business trip would be missed if he failed to arrive. ”

- Thorstein Veblen

“ Invention is the mother of necessity. ”

- Thorstein Veblen

“ The outcome of any serious research can only be to make two questions grow where only one grew before. ”

- Thorstein Veblen

“ No one travelling on a business trip would be missed if he failed to arrive. ”

- Thorstein Veblen

“ Conservatism is the maintenance of conventions already in force. ”

- Thorstein Veblen

“ With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of the economic motives proper. ”

- Thorstein Veblen

“ No one travelling on a business trip would be missed if he failed to arrive. ”

- Thorstein Veblen

“ The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods. ”

- Thorstein Veblen

“ Conservatism is the maintenance of conventions already in force. ”

- Thorstein Veblen

“ It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost, and at any risk to the rest of the community. ”

- Thorstein Veblen

“ In order to stand well in the eyes of the community, it is necessary to come up to a certain, somewhat indefinite, conventional standard of wealth. ”

- Thorstein Veblen

“ In order to stand well in the eyes of the community, it is necessary to come up to a certain, somewhat indefinite, conventional standard of wealth. ”

- Thorstein Veblen

“ It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost, and at any risk to the rest of the community. ”

- Thorstein Veblen

“ In order to stand well in the eyes of the community, it is necessary to come up to a certain, somewhat indefinite, conventional standard of wealth. ”

- Thorstein Veblen

“ In itself and in its consequences the life of leisure is beautiful and ennobling in all civilised men's eyes. ”

- Thorstein Veblen

“ Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure. ”

- Thorstein Veblen

“ In itself and in its consequences the life of leisure is beautiful and ennobling in all civilised men's eyes. ”

- Thorstein Veblen

“ Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure. ”

- Thorstein Veblen

“ All business sagacity reduces itself in the last analysis to a judicious use of sabotage. ”

- Thorstein Veblen

“ With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of the economic motives proper. ”

- Thorstein Veblen

“ In itself and in its consequences the life of leisure is beautiful and ennobling in all civilised men's eyes. ”

- Thorstein Veblen

“ All business sagacity reduces itself in the last analysis to a judicious use of sabotage. ”

- Thorstein Veblen

“ Where the animistic habit is present in the naive form, its scope and range of application are not defined or limited. It will therefore palpably affect his thinking at every turn of the person's life — wherever he has to do with the material means of life… ”

- Thorstein Veblen

“ The outcome of any serious research can only be to make two questions grow where only one grew before. ”

- Thorstein Veblen

“ The outcome of any serious research can only be to make two questions grow where only one grew before. ”

- Thorstein Veblen

“ With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of the economic motives proper. ”

- Thorstein Veblen

“ With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of the economic motives proper. ”

- Thorstein Veblen

“ With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of the economic motives proper. ”

- Thorstein Veblen

“ Invention is the mother of necessity. ”

- Thorstein Veblen

“ No one travelling on a business trip would be missed if he failed to arrive. ”

- Thorstein Veblen
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