Quotes About Exclusivity

We're a bit too white breed here on the peninsula. We like to think we're diverse but it's only our bank accounts that differ.

Business-class travel. If you haven't done it, then you can only imagine it. And once you have done it, you can never unimagine it – you are ruined for life. It is probably the single greatest reason to be wealthy that there is.

The thing about Instagram and fashion is that is has absolutely taken down the sense of the velvet rope and has pulled the curtain aside on the entire experience that used to be for a select 100 people in the world. Now it is there for millions of people to consume.

I tend to avoid televisions, politics, and places with velvet ropes.

We're all driven to premieres or nightclubs and seen the rope separating those who can enter and those who can't. Well, there's also a velvet rope we have inside of us, keeping others from knowing our feelings.

Historically venture capital funds have only allowed elite investors in.

Social media is itself as temporary as any social gathering, nightclub or party. It's the people that matter, not the venue. So when the trend leaders of one social niche or another decide the place everyone is socializing has lost its luster or, more important, its exclusivity, they move on to the next one, taking their followers with them.

You can't explain Chanel. It's a verb.

Essentially, Louis XIV created exclusivity. If we look at how we live our lives today, many of us are members of clubs or gyms. We search out exclusivity. He created the world of fashion at Versailles.

To reach the finish line in a marathon is to enter an elite group: only about one-tenth of 1 percent of the population does it.

I should have prepared you for a brand of snobbery that no other nation on earth can emulate.

What does it say about your society that it admits only those who do not care very much to belong? For a start, it suggests that the English don't much care to be liked. They prefer the company of other misanthropes. Since no misanthrope worth the name would actually want to join a club, eager applicants must be snubbed.

Belonging to another man and therefore not even a little bit to him.

I don't want a lot of people nosing round my studio and bothering me. I don't want to see them at all. Let the dealers have all that bother.

In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us.

Chic rarely bothers to leave the Rue De Faubourg Saint-Honore.

What I have with you I don't want with anyone else.

I don't have famous neighbours and if I did, I'd avoid them. I don't live the jet-set.

Marketing theory says that people are driven by fear, by the promise of exclusivity, by guilt and greed, and by the need for approval. Advertising technology, armed with market research and sophisticated psychology, aims to throw us off balance emotionally—and then promises to resolve our discomfort with a product.

I think beauty has a lot to do with class. A bit of mystery. Rarity.

Beauty is not democratic; she reveals herself more to the few than to the many.

Bowie and McCartney arrived, and the biscuits and caviare started and I left immediately. I don't like shouting across rooms, with people in shiny suits who look like used-car salesmen.

Of course the first version of an all-electric sports car is going to be expensive.

It hardly ever attaches to any other sin except one, and is never heard from any organized group of people except one.