Quotes About Status

the balance sheet is the company's thermometer. It lets you know whether you're healthy or not.

Extraordinary that those who command the perquisites of place are those most ready to ignore them! It is as if the blessings of Providence are specious, and notable only in their absence. Ah well, I refuse to speculate.

Men will heed words spoken from one in a position of authority that they disdain from other sources.

Suffice it to say that we only answer questions when the person asking has a lot of silver on the epaulettes, or around the peak of his cap.

People are not, for example, terribly anxious to be equal (equal, after all, to what and to whom?) but they love the idea of being superior

It is the peculiar triumph of society—and its loss—that it is able to convince those people to whom it has given inferior status of the reality of this decree.

Uncertainty and fears of social decline and exclusion have reached the middle class in many societies.

You know, my uncle wore a lot of jewelry, a lot of gold chains.

May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?

Arcade Fire has kept their indie cred. They will sell out stadiums yet still have underdog status. But when you're a band like Coldplay, people are waiting to knock you down.

Never underestimate the power of being popular in pop culture. You have to be able to do something. You can have a good seat at the restaurant, but you still have to pay for the meal. Fame is important, but to be rich is more important.

I was an underground artist, but the underground status was successful. Coming from where I came from to see where rap is now, now artists are selling from a million to eight million copies.

Top Gear,' for entirely understandable reasons, started to focus on its international status because it was selling so well in international territories.

I want someone who will love me for the person I am and not because of my status. It has to be someone who understands the pressure of playing for India. It will be very difficult to be with a person who has her own career because someone has to make sacrifices for the family and house.

When I appointed the Minister of the Environment to major cabinet status, the Planning and Priorities committee, the signals that that sent through Ottawa were major, because that's what the bureaucracy understands.

In order to create real, long-lasting reform, we must create a pathway to legal status for the millions of undocumented immigrants who have made lives for themselves and their families in the United States.

Nowadays excessive work and pressure are status symbols. Time to oneself is sooner equated with unemployment and laziness, certainly in countries where the wealth gap has widened.

It is very unfortunate that unless you are a star, nobody considers you in B-Town.

In a materialistic society, an employed boy is older than an unemployed man.

It is the sweat of the servants that make their squire look smart.

A poor, who hates power, once become powerful, hates poor.

In general, poor is polite and rich is rude.

The shrewd marry for money, the scheming marry for status, the calculating marry for power, but the wise marry for love.

Mercedes Benz : A mechanical device that increases sexual arousal in women.