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Thorstein Veblen

"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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Donna Grant

"Rich is my word for someone who can afford to make choices, who has enough resources to do more than merely survive."

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Donna Grant

"Everyone is poor in one way or another, so there is no need to worry of where you belong, we are all rich and poor at the same time."

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Donna Grant

"When you don't have enough or you run out, you feel in your core that the leak has begun and there will be no end to the leakage. And this makes you feel like a chump. Whereas having some money gives you the conviction that you're not naked in the howling wind, even though you basically are, existentially."

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Donna Grant

"I fear that in this thing many rich people deceive themselves. They go on accumulating the means but never using them; making bricks, but never building."

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Donna Grant

"Greatness can only be bought through time."

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Donna Grant

"Not every happy person is rich, and, Not every rich person is happy."

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Donna Grant

"The difference between a rich man and a poor man is that; a rich man only thinks of how to spend money while a poor man, thinks of how to make money."

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Donna Grant

"You only become truly rich the day you possess something that money cannot buy."

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Donna Grant

"If we have wealth, it will be protected from inflation and possibly even enhanced in value."

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Donna Grant

"Open your mouth and purse cautiously, and your stock of wealth and reputation shall, at least in repute, be great."

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Thorstein Veblen
"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."

Strength

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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."

Business

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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."

Politics

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Thorstein Veblen
"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."

Wealth

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

Business

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Thorstein Veblen
"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."

Work

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

Nature

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Thorstein Veblen
"Invention is the mother of necessity."

Family

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

Economy

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

Life

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