Quotes About Status

In corporate levels, it's all about tailoring your shirt and which tennis club you belong to and which watch you are wearing and what did you shoot last week?

If you're wearing a Bluetooth thing and you've got that thing on your belt, you are working for somebody else. You are not the guy in charge. That's a really good social status indicator.

As we ascend the social ladder, viciousness wears a thicker mask.

Almost everyone wears rubber on their feet these days, but there was a time when it was considered cheap. Luxury shoes had leather soles, which were rigid and heavy.

Status in itself is criminal for those with the means to move, and the means to weave communion between people.

Digital is not about putting up your story on the web. It's about a fundamental redrawing of journalists' relationship with our audience, how we think about our readers, our perception of our role in society, our status.

In an online community, there's this kind of social economy between the community members. Some people have status because they make cool skins or that's a good website that's visited a lot, but there's no real gameplay there.

I might wear a $10,000 outfit on a weekend, no cap.

Ferrari used to be the car that you kept in your garage, took out to polish and show, and put back into the garage.

When they see me holding fish, they can see that I am comfortable with kings as well as with paupers.

Polo is about the aspirational lifestyle of the sporty person, on and off the field.

Money is a poor man's credit card.

My aim is to make the poor look rich and the rich look poor.

In a change of masters the poor change nothing except their master's name.

Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent.

I've had two callers ask, 'Did you ever work for someone who is poorer than you are?' Their idea is it takes a rich person to give you a job because jobs are something that are given to you, an inferior, from on high.

My kids are now the most popular kids in their school.

I guess I was popular in high school.

Popularity is given to you, and if you think that just because you're really popular you're a better person, it could be a real crash when you find the popularity goes down.

But 'This Town' is official Washington. It's political Washington. It's not the Washington that clogs New York Avenue. It's not the Washington that lives in Gaithersburg. It's not the Washington that accounts for most of the population. 'This Town' refers to the people who think they run your country.

I don't drive Yugo anymore, I drive Porsche.

I've got a nice, big house. I've got two nice cars, including a Bentley, and I'm test-driving a Porsche.

I went and bought a Porsche - but it's a certified used Porsche.

There's a difference between being posh and being rich.