Thorstein Veblen Leisure quotes

" Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure. " # Leisure # Reputation # Gentlemen

" 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 " # Leisure # Reputation # America