All business sagacity reduces itself in the last analysis to judicious use of sabotage. — Thorstein Veblen
The chief use of servants is the evidence they afford of the master’s ability to pay. — Thorstein Veblen
The outcome of any serious research can only be to make two questions grow where only one grew before. — Thorstein Veblen
The dog commends himself to our favor by affording play to our propensity for mastery. — Thorstein Veblen
The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests — Thorstein Veblen
The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man’s moral nature. — Thorstein Veblen
Labor wants pride and joy in doing good work, a sense of making or doing something beautiful — 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 itself and in its consequences the life of leisure is beautiful and ennobling in all civilised men’s eyes. — Thorstein Veblen
In order to stand well in the eyes of the community, it is necessary to come up to a certain — Thorstein Veblen
Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure. — Thorstein Veblen
Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to — Thorstein Veblen
All business sagacity reduces itself in the last analysis to judicious use of sabotage. — Thorstein Veblen