I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

—Thorstein Veblen

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About Thorstein Veblen

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Thorstein Bunde Veblen ( THOR-styn VEH-blən; July 30, 1857 – August 3, 1929) was an American economist and sociologist who, during his lifetime, emerged as a well-known critic of capitalism. In his best-known book, The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899), Veblen coined the concepts of conspicuous consumption and conspicuous...

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Invention is the mother of necessity.

—Thorstein Veblen

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Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards—and living up to them—is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it.

Business has only two basic functions-marketing and innovation.

—Sydney Biddle Barrows

To succeed as a team is to hold all of the members accountable for their expertise.

—Peter Drucker

A dinner lubricates business.

The more I know about business, the more I'm convinced that it is conducted in homes and churches far more than in office buildings.

—Mitchell Caplan

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