Thorstein Veblen Quotes

A Rolex watch or an expensive car are the things guys often use to show status, wealth, and basic desirability.

Wealth has never been a sufficient source of honour in itself. It must be advertised, and the normal medium is obtrusively expensive.

You want to have a good job so you can make good money. You want to make good money so you can buy nice things. You want to have nice things so you can impress a nice woman.

Money is often a matter of chance or good fortune and is not the mark of a successful life. It is not the thing that brings a throb of pleasure or a thrill into my life. And I would not pose as a successful man if that were to be the measure.

It's human nature when you first make your big fortune to want to show off a bit. I don't begrudge that whatsoever.

I am quite amazed how, when people earn lots of money, they think they have to spend it on things that give them access to the club constituted by the people who are in their tax bracket.

Wealthy people have not disappeared, they are just not so willing to show off their wealth.

In fact, I'd just like to own something. Everyone thinks I'm glamorous, rich and famous but all I've got is some recording equipment and a battered old BMW.

When people evaluate their life, they compare themselves to a standard of what a successful life is, and it turns out that standard tends to be universal: People in Togo and Denmark have the same idea of what a good life is, and a lot of that has to do with money and material prosperity.

Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping.

Many good qualities are not sufficient to balance a single want - the want of money.

Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.

Money is power, and you ought to be reasonably ambitious to have it.

The great affair, we always find, is to get money.

I wasn't making any money, but I didn't feel unsuccessful because of that. You can do that in New York but not in Hollywood. In Hollywood, it is how much money you make.

Money has stepped to the forefront of everything.

Money fixes most problems.

Which girl doesn't see the bank balance of the guy she is marrying? Not only the girl - even her parents want her to marry a financially secure guy.

My first signing bonus was 3,500 bucks. I bought speakers and a five-disc carousel CD changer. Dude, I thought I was the wealthiest quarterback around.

Whosoever has money has power. It's not about a label. If you have money tomorrow, you will be powerful.

For my part, the thing I would wish to obtain from money would be leisure with security. But what the typical modern man desires to get with it is more money, with a view to ostentation, splendour, and the outshining of those who have hitherto been his equals.

Money is sensual.

Thank you for making me nouveau riche.

Money is just a way of keeping score.

Riches are chiefly good because they give us time.