Quote by Thorstein Veblen
It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at an

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

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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. – Thorstein Veblen

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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. – Thorstein Veblen

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The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in mans moral nature. – Thorstein Veblen

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Your bottom line starts with your front line. – John Villere

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No gain is so certain as that which proceeds from the economical use of what you already have. – Proverb

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Take every gain without showing remorse about missed profits, because an eel may escape sooner than you think. – Lope de Vega

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What is a man if he is not a thief who openly charges as much as he can for the goods he sells? – Mahatma Gandhi

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