All business sagacity reduces itself in the last analysis to judicious use of sabotage. -Thorstein Veblen Business
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 Business
The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature. -Thorstein Veblen Sports
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 Work
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 Strength
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 Respect
