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"The wealth of time is actually of more value than natural resources."
"When the going gets tough: the poor close their eyes, the rich open their wallets."
"Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame."
"I am opposed to millionaires but it would be dangerous to offer me the position."
"No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth."
"The richest man is he who lives simply but has an abundance of love and kindness to give away."
"No man has become world's richest man because he wasted his time in the pub in the cinemas watching movies and sports."
Explore more quotes by Thorstein Veblen
"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."
"It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost and at any risk to the rest of the community."
"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."
"In point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing or dancing."
"The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature."
"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."
"In itself and in its consequences the life of leisure is beautiful and ennobling in all civilised men's eyes."
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