Famous Quotes / Thorstein Veblen
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."
Basis | Community | Conspicuous | Consumption |
Gaining | Good | Goods | Highly |
Industrial | Leisure | Means | Name |
Organized | Pecuniary | Repute | Rests |
Retaining | Showing | Strength | Ultimately |