Famous Quotes / Thorstein Veblen
8 Quotations by Thorstein Veblen
- 1. Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.
- 2. In order to stand well in the eyes of the community, it is necessary to come up to a certain, somewh ...
- 3. Invention is the mother of necessity.
- 4. It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost, and at any risk to the res ...
- 5. No one travelling on a business trip would be missed if he failed to arrive.
- 6. The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecu ...
- 7. The outcome of any serious research can only be to make two questions grow where only one grew befor ...
- 8. Wise business management, and more particularly what is spoken of as safe and sane business manageme ...