Facts about Thorstein Veblen

Occup.	Economist
From	USA
Born	July 30, 1857
Died	August 3, 1929
Aged	72 years

Summary

Thorstein Veblen was a famous Economist from USA, who lived between July 30, 1857 and August 3, 1929. He/she became 72 years old.

Zodiac:

He/she is born under the zodiac leo, who is known for Ruling, Warmth, Generosity, Faithful, Initiative. Our collection contains 13 quotes who is written / told by Thorstein.

13 Famous quotes by Thorstein Veblen

"Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure"

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"Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress"

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"All business sagacity reduces itself in the last analysis to judicious use of sabotage"

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

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"The dog commends himself to our favor by affording play to our propensity for mastery"

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"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"

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"The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature"

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"Labor wants pride and joy in doing good work, a sense of making or doing something beautiful or useful - to be treated with dignity and respect as brother and sister"

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

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"Invention is the mother of necessity"

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"In point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing or dancing"

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"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"

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

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