Quotes About Status

I want my kids to win. Winners get the corner office, the big house, the hot wife, the whole nine.

Seed investing is the status symbol of Silicon Valley. Most people don't want Ferraris, they want a winning seed investment.

Talking about class terrifies me. There is no way of winning.

Anyone who is humble but still super accomplished, super recognized, renowned, has status, and has every reason to not have to be humble if they don't want to, but they still choose to be humble because they value that humanity is connected - that we're all on the same level as humans - that humility is what wins my heart.

Thank you for making me nouveau riche.

In America, the first thing people say is, 'What do you do?'

I bought a purse that was so grossly expensive, it's embarrassing. It cost $3,500, and it was by Louis Vuitton. The one thing about investing in something like that is that I get to pull it out years later, and it still looks cool and holds its value.

There are three things that constantly mediate our belief in ghosts – religion, the media and social status. Since these are things that change, our ghosts have changed in accordance with them.

For men who prided themselves on being disciples of reason, their drive to live on the edge seemd inexplicable, unless they believed that becoming the richest would certify them as also being the smartest.

Money is the most egalitarian force in society. It confers power on whoever holds it.

There were two faces pressed cheek to cheek and looking at the camera: an overly tanned older man, grimacing and shiny, and the trophy wife. They were holding up champagne flutes in hands loaded down with bling. #ilovemyshipwreckedparents. "Hashtag asskiss," said Rafe. "Parents? She's not even his mother!" said Sukey. "Unless she had him when she was three," said Jen. I quit the app.

When the landed gentry cut up a seed cake for tea it makes no difference to the cake which of them holds the knife; whoever 'won' Earth's war, it would be the same old crew who stepped up to hold out their plates: the squabble over Truck and the Device was nothing more than a polite difference as to who should have the largest slice.

Women's status in society has become the standard by which humanity's progress toward civility and peace can be measured."-Architects of Peace: Visions of Hope in Words and Images

People at the top are self-conscious about what they say (and rightfully so) because they have position and privilege to protect — and self-consciousness is the enemy of "interestingness.

It would be easier to accept that version of events, however, if we hadn't just looked at hockey and soccer players. Theirs was supposed to be a pure meritocracy as well. Only it wasn't. It was a story of how the outliers in a particular field reached their lofty status through

Era un ejemplo de cómo los fuera de serie de un campo particular alcanzaban el estatus más alto mediante una combinación de capacidad, oportunidad y ventaja completamente arbitraria

We spend a lot of time thinking about the ways that prestige and resources and belonging to elite institutions make us better off. We don't spend enough time thinking about the ways in which those kinds of material advantages limit our options. Vivek

For everyone, success matters more than anything else. Whether you are a good guy or not, no one really cares. All they really care about is how successful you are.

Measure your success by the number of people who envy you.

Most people do not want much. All they want is to be envied by most people.

Appreciate success and status thy will bestow.

If only we were all better educated. If then, higher education would at last be a journey for skill and knowledge rather than for power and status.

A little into it they fucked for a kid. Squeezed one out. Couple years later fucked for another. Now she's here. One more broad in a big-ass truck with the ring, the two kids, the latest cell phone.

Status is about counting, numbering, ranking and ultimately about excluding.