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— Thorstein Veblen"Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure."
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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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It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost, and at any risk to the rest of the community.
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