Quotes About Status

the Ego of the mature man needs to think of itself—no matter what status or power it has temporarily achieved—as the servant of a transpersonal Will, or Cause. It needs to think of itself as a steward of the King energy, not for the benefit of itself, but for the benefit of those within its "realm," whatever that may be.

The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness.

As is obvious, the English scientific stars were overwhelmingly from the bourgeois, while more than half of the European stars were from the 'leisure class', gentry and the nobility – only 16 per cent were from the bourgeois.

He was also wary of upsetting the existing social hierarchy.

Their strategy was to make clients feel accepted into a private club, as if a Morgan account were a membership card to the aristocracy.

Ida Alice seemed determined to run through Flagler's money, gathering an expensive wardrobe and trying to buy her way into New York high society.

It never occurred to the Rockefellers to trade up to a more socially prestigious denomination. "Most Americans when they accumulate money climb the golden spires of the nearest Episcopal Church," H. L. Mencken later observed.

For Archbold, it was the Russians' failure to consolidate their domestic industry—that is, to suppress competition and establish a trust—that consigned them to secondary status.

He occupies a position in our business circles second to but few.

so the bank had a heavy stake in the status quo.

Though Rockefeller resisted the yacht-owning fad that swept New York society in the 1880s and owned neither a boat nor private railroad car, he spared no expense for fast-trotting horses

Rockefeller felt no discomfort at being surrounded by humble people

expensive silk jacket, ambitious.

Difference between the men and the boys is the price of their toys?

Good ideas are not taken seriously enough when they come from people of low status in the academic world; conversely, the ideas of high-status people are often taken too seriously.

I'm not middle-class; I do not have a degree. I am upper-class without money.

It would seem that an overabundance of thinking beings is a dangerous thing, if it reduces them to the status of sand.

We are inclined, that is, to see movie stars as more talented than aspiring movie stars and to think that the richest people in the world must also be the smartest.

Disenchantment, like any other fashion, having started off among the elite had now been passed down to finish its days among the lower orders.

A schoolfellow of Vronsky's and of the same age, he was a general and was expecting a command, which might have influence on the course of political events; while Vronsky, independent and brilliant and beloved by a charming woman though he was, was simply a cavalry captain who was readily allowed to be as independent as ever he liked.

They have money and position and Ann has none.It's amazing how often you can be right as long as you have those two things working in your favor.

in a manner befitting your station while at Spence. It's fine to be kind to the lesser girls, but remember that they are not your equals." Station. Lesser girls. Not your equals. It's a laugh, really.

Strength is given us for service, not to convey status (see Romans 15:2). I wonder how much trouble would be averted in the world at large if everyone knew and adhered to this principle. What if we knew that our strength was to serve the weak, fearful, or timid? It would all be good!

It's a popular trick among the streetwise to appear richer than they are.