Quotes About Status

I try not to buy into that whole, crazy 'you are what you drive' mentality here, but I wouldn't want to be seen in a Ford Fiesta - you know what I mean?

Even the brokest Saudi got a Mercedes.

I don't remember going to school with anyone who had a Mercedes dealership.

I have a Mercedes, which is a pretty fast car. It's not a Lamborghini.

In Vanity Fair, everyone messes up.

I've got a condo in Miami, but I don't live in it.

The middle class has just fallen further and further behind the rich.

There's no such thing as median income; there's a curve, and it really matters what side of the curve you're on. There's no such thing as the middle class. It's absolutely vanishing.

We were working class, and you don't lose that. Later on, I bolted on media middle class... and now people like me are in the House of Lords.

Members of the middle class do not have to worry about falling off $250,000 sailboats because they don't have $250,000 sailboats to fall off of.

I was as middle class as it comes.

I might be a celebrity but I belong to the humble category.

If you look like a million bucks, people might assume you come from a million bucks.

In America, if you don't do a 100 million dollars, you've done nothing.

When black men become millionaires and can buy expensive homes for their families, it infuriates people who cherish the social construct where white people are at the top and people of other ethnic backgrounds are below.

To be a very, very minor, eighth-tier celebrity, you realize, 'Hey, celebrities are just like us.'

Their position was perhaps the happiest of all positions in the social scale, being above the line at which neediness ends, and below the line at which the convenances begin to cramp natural feeling, and the stress of threadbare modishness makes too little of enough.

I am only a peasant by position, not by nature!

An unedified palate is the irrepressible cloven foot of the upstart. The

Ay, I'm a poor man—a poor gentleman, in fact: those I would be friends with, won't be friends with me; those who are willing to be friends with me, I am above being friends with.

It is easier to purchase products that denote superiority than to actually be superior in economic achievement.

For every millionaire who owns a $1,000 suit, there are at least six owners who have annual incomes in the $50,000 to $200,000 range but who are not millionaires.

It is unfortunate that some people judge others by their choice in foods, beverages, suits, watches, motor vehicles, and such. To them, superior people have excellent tastes in consumer goods. But it is easier to purchase products that denote superiority than to be actually superior in economic achievement. Allocating time and money in the pursuit of looking superior often has a predictable outcome: inferior economic achievement.

To many successful, achievement-oriented children of the affluent, accumulating money is not the superordinate goal. Instead, they want to be well educated, to be respected by their peers, and to occupy a high-status position. For