Quotes About Status

I've got an Aston Martin.

Honestly, at the end of every season, we sit down and review where we're at.

We were not as rich as the Rockefellers or Mellons, but we were rich enough to know how rich they were.

Rich people only like being around rich people.

Rock stars wanted to date the models, the trendsetters, the tastemakers.

The royal family don't mean nothing.

There's no royalty in America, so people deify actors.

I'm not Russell Brand or Ricky Gervais, but I have enough money that I don't have to work. Most people who've done what I do don't have that.

I'm in a BMW rut. My last three cars have been BMW 3-Series.

I don't care about keeping seats of power.

My dad owned Cadillacs all my life.

Once upon a time in America, people aspired to party like a rock star. Now, rock stars aspire to party like a football owner.

I haven't paid for anything since I became famous.

Look, I'm an A-list actress in Pakistan. I work with only A-listers.

I'm very well-recognized in Japan, on a par with a rock star.

Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.

At dinner parties I sit below the salt now. There are a lot of interesting people there.

Inequality is partly a marker of success.

I'm not working-class: I come from the criminal classes.

status quo bias. This research demonstrates that people do not like to change unless there is a compelling reason to do so, such as an attractive incentive. Related research shows that people exhibit strong "loss aversion," in that they are twice as likely to seek to avoid losses as they are to acquire gains.

the same time, they tell us to what extent the contemporary theory scene, and especially the French one, of which Bourdieu has a good overview, resembles a bonfire of vanities. They show how deeply the human, the all too human, especially the struggle for prestige and privileged status, influenced the behavior of the class that does theory.

People at the top of the tree are those without qualifications to detain those at the bottom

Politicians only get to the top because they have no qualifications to detain them at the bottom.

Men in however high a station ought to fear the humble.