"Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means……" — Thorstein Veblen

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

— Thorstein Veblen

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36 Quotes by Thorstein Veblen

Thorstein Veblen has 36 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Only individuals with an aberrant temperament can in the long run retain their self-esteem in the face of the disesteem…
In order to stand well in the eyes of the community, it is necessary to come up to a certain,…
Loud dress becomes offensive to people of taste, as evincing an undue desire to reach and impress the untrained sensibilities…
With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and…
The visible imperfections of hand-wrought goods, being honorific, are accounted marks of superiority in point of beauty, or serviceability, or…
There are few things that so touch us with instinctive revulsion as a breach of decorum.
Invention is the mother of necessity.
In itself and in its consequences the life of leisure is beautiful and ennobling in all civilised men's eyes.
The quasi-peaceable gentleman of leisure, then, not only consumes of the staff of life beyond the minimum required for subsistence…
It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost, and at any risk to the…
All business sagacity reduces itself in the last analysis to judicious use of sabotage.
In point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing…

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More Conspicuous Quotes

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An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind. — Walter Bagehot
Yes, U.S. travelers dress better. The British are always so conspicuous in hot climates. They don't seem to wear shorts.… — Bill Bryson
The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter. — Alice Meynell
Every successful man or great genius has three particular qualities in common. The most conspicuous of these is that they… — Walter Russell
The smaller the number and the more permanent and conspicuous the station of men in power, the stronger must be… — James Madison
One meets the cat in nearly all forms of art...curiously enough she is not a conspicuous figure in Roman or… — Carl Van Vechten
The students [of the 60s] substituted conspicuous compassion for their parents conspicuous consumption. — Allan Bloom
The Hand of providence has been so conspicuous in all this, that he must be worse than an infidel that… — George Washington
It pleased God to make one nation the medium of all His communications with mankind: This the nation of the… — Joseph Priestley
If conquerors be regarded as the engine-drivers of History, then the conquerors of thought are perhaps the pointsmen who, less… — Arthur Koestler
Be yourself-but don't be conspicuous. — Fred Astaire
Happiness doesn't lie in conspicuous consumption and the relentless amassing of useless crap. Happiness lies in the person sitting beside… — Dennis Lehane

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