Quotes About Status

You can tell how poor someone feels by the number of times he references "money" in his conversation.

The problem of lumpy payoffs is not so much in the lack of income they entail, but the pecking order, the loss of dignity, the subtle humiliations near the watercooler.

You want to avoid being disliked without being envied or admired

Note that in traditional societies even those who fail—but have taken risks—have a higher status than those who are not exposed.

The best slave is someone you overpay and who knows it, terrified of losing his status.

more suicides come from shame or loss of financial and social status than medical diagnoses.

few want to jeopardize their jobs and reputation for the sake of change.

one needs a decent university "name" to get ahead in life;

the burden of proof lies on someone disturbing a complex system, not on the person protecting the status quo.

With your pardon, sir," replied Dr. Clarke, a physician and a famous champion of the popular party, "whatever the heralds may pretend, a dead beggar must have precedence of a living queen. King Death confers high privileges.

finge estarlo, por política y cuestiones de casta.

I hope that I never become a vogue. A vogue is damned and doomed forever.

the worst men have the best jobs the best men have the worst jobs or are unemployed or locked in madhouses.

Vrata su se otvorila. Bio je to muškarac, oko ?etiri i pol decenija, polubogat, polunervozan, s nogama prevelikog broja, prištem na ?elu gore lijevo, sme?im o?ima, kravatom. 2 automobila, 2 ku?e, bez djece. Bazen i sauna, igra na burzi i samo je umjereno glup.

However anomalous to European eyes, this form of writing has deep roots in Andean culture. Knotted-string communication was but one aspect of these societies' exploration of textile technology (see Chapter 3). In these cultures, Heather Lechtman, of MIT, has argued, cloth "was the most important carrier of status, the material of choice for the communication of message, whether religious, political, or scientific.

When we bless people and treat them lovingly, we are using our status the way God intended.

Desks are to executives what souped-up Mitsubishi Colts with low-profile alloys, metal-flake paint jobs, and extra-loud, chrome-plated exhaust pipes are to chavs; they're a big swinging dick, the proxy they use to proclaim their sense of self-importance. If you want to understand an executive, you study his desk.

Scions of old families who've hit the skids do like to flaunt their illustrious ancestors....

In the vocabulary of certain radical theorists contradictions are given the status of some deadly disease to which their opponents alone can succumb. But contradictions are the very stuff of life. If there had been a little dash of contradiction among the Gadarene swine some of them might have been saved from drowning.

The governing ideal was not merely to keep up with the Joneses, but to be the Joneses—to own the same model of car or dishwasher or lawn mower.

Nearly half of the country is now classified as poor or low-income.

When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.

People in Shanghai make a lot more money than the farmers in the rice paddies. The rice-paddy farmers are not buying Louis Vuitton bags, but the upwardly mobile ones in Shanghai, who are all working in Wall Street-type firms, are infinitely better-dressed than people in the West. Their women take this fashion thing seriously.

I've said this before: a homeless guy in Detroit has more mojo than a millionaire in Jacksonville.