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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The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in mans moral nature. – 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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No gain is so certain as that which proceeds from the economical use of what you already have. – Proverb

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

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Profits on the exchange are the treasures of goblins. At one time they may be carbuncle stones, then coals, then diamonds, then flint stones, then morning dew, then tears. – Lope de Vega

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The Super Bowl is a kind of corporate Woodstock. – Michael Ruby, Inside Sports, 1981

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I am the most well-adjusted human being I know. I started out this investigation as a very happy man with a great career. Ive got the life people dream about: I am rich, I am famous, Ive got a fabulous marriage to an absolutely, spell-bindingly brilliant woman. – James Ellroy

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