Quotes About Status

There is a big difference between Assigned Prestige and Achieved Prestige. Assigned Prestige will usually abuse it's power where Achieved Prestige won't.

I propose that the government should get out of the business of marrying people and, instead, only give legal status to civil unions.

Our society doesn't have the proper respect for magna cum laude

If society treated sex with any dignity or respect, both pornographers and prostitutes would have status, which they obviously had at one time. The sexual women of antiquity were the artists and writers of sexual love. Since organized religions have made all forms of sexual pleasure evil, no modern equivalent exists today.

What was the fun of being upper-class if you had to work so hard to appear bored all the time?

The most important principle that an executive must embrace is a desire to produce results. As obvious as this sounds, it is not universally practiced by the highest-ranking executives in many companies. Many CEOs put something ahead of results on their list of priorities, and it represents the most dangerous of all the temptations: the desire to protect the status of their careers.

As it turns out, the primary motive for most young people, and too many older ones, is the rewards that leadership brings with it. Things like notoriety, status, and power. But people who are motivated by these things won't embrace the demands of leadership when they see little or no connection between doing their duties and receiving those rewards.

the lower classes naturally looked up to gentlemen and loved them, in their humble way; only gentlemen were fit to be officers.

There's something repulsive about an American without money in his pocket.

In England, at least, corruption only became unfashionable (and in fact only started to be called "corruption") when there started to be other, faster ways to get rich.

Brand is the residue left as the substantive differences between rich and poor evaporate.

or flying over the chaos in their private helicopters.

Avoid those who seek friends in order to maintain a certain social status or to open doors they would not otherwise be able to approach.

Celebrity doesn't have anything to do with art or craft. It's about being rich and thinking that you're better than everybody else.

Discuss unto me: art thou officer, Or art thou base, common, and popular?

When bankers get together for dinner, they discuss Art. When artists get together for dinner, they discuss Money

I would rather be first in a little Iberian village than second in Rome.

There's just a whole different attitude and vibe when you're not in power as when you're in power.

Stasis is itself criminal for those with the means to move.

Maybe if he was the sort of man who could eat someone else's hash browns, who the hotel wanted to impress so much they sent him someone else's breakfast, maybe then he was the sort of man who could get an audience with the King.

Franklin Roosevelt was pretty good." "He was already rich. Nobody could touch him.

Nobles and peasants marry early. Businessmen tend to wait.

For some reason I was reluctant to ask anybody what had happened. I hate being the person who always doesn't know what's going on and has to ask somebody; it always seems like everybody else knows what's going on. This is a clear low-status marker, and I resisted it.

A beggar's book outworths a noble's blood.