Quotes About Exclusivity

I know people whose entire lives are ruined by fame. If you make yourself exclusive, people want to break that down, but if you go about doing your shopping, no one bugs you.

It's no good being exclusive if nobody wants in.

The couture client wants the latest things, but she wants the clothes to be super-special - the fabrics won't even touch or go near anything like prêt-à-porter.

The man who insists on high and serious pleasures is depriving himself of pleasure; he continually restricts what he can enjoy; in the constant exercise of his good taste he will eventually price himself out of the market, so to speak.

If a man is going to be an American at all let him be so without any qualifying adjectives, and if he is going to be something else, let him drop the word American from his personal description.

What I dislike about going to the club is if you're not behind that red rope, you feel you're missing something special going on.

I'm sorry - you know, culture is elitist. Culture has to be elitist: it's about seeing and knowing and about knowledge.

Buyers of powerful cars place a high premium on the exhaust note, and manufacturers spend a lot of money getting it right. At the same time, high-end cars are expected to filter out the sounds of the mundane world.

All serious elite institutions, from the great London clubs to the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party, have always made sure that most people can't get into them. That's the point.

Everyone gets very excited about the idea of space travel, but... it's not going to be everybody that gets to go.

What I have with you, I do not want with anyone else.

Such businesses only care about the pool of funds available to the very rich.

Winner-take-all effects are worsening:

Mitch's father's exclusive gated community had an extensive guard gate. In fact, it had two. It also had an electrified fence. And towers with armed guards. All things considered, few gated communities could be more exclusive than the Colorado State Penitentiary.

Un bel quartiere. Definizione di un bel quartiere: un posto in cui non puoi permetterti di abitare.

Nuestra creciente riqueza nos ha permitido dejar de ser cazadores de gangas que adquieren productos de marca (o incluso sin marca), para convertirnos en miniexpertos y permitirnos miles de pequeños caprichos que nos distinguen de los demás. Adoptamos una serie de nuevas conductas de compra que se describen con palabras de significado opuesto, como «personalización en serie», «exclusividad masiva». Todas van en la misma dirección: más largas colas.

Más del 99 por ciento de los álbumes musicales existentes en el mercado no están disponibles en Wal-Mart.

I bought a Lamborghini, SV Aventador, one of 600. Modified. There's other 'Lambos' out there, but that one I have is unique.

Selfishness is uncomfortable even for the selfish. Hence the rise of gated communities: the privileged don't like to be reminded of their privileges - if these carry morally dubious connotations.

What exactly is a 'gated community' and why does it matter?

There is an entire industry out there that is aimed at making spiritual people feel special—all in return for a fee.

To render the kings and higher nobility still more exclusive, they had a court language which was understood only by themselves, and which was changed in part from time to time as its expressions found interpretation beyond the royal circle. Some portions of this court language have been preserved.

Estoy seguro de que sabes lo que te voy a decir, Shuya pero amar a alguien siempre implica no amar a otros.

Loving someone always requires you to not love others.