Quotes About Hierarchy

Eminent station makes great men more great, and little ones less.

Never inject a man into the top, if it can be avoided. In a big organization, to have to do that, I think, is a reflection on management, Of course there are always exceptional cases.

The notion that the colonel need be a better man than the private is as confused as the notion that the keystone need be stronger than the coping stone.

There is no reason why a king should be rich or a rich man should be a king, no reason at all.

Nature is the line; those who are under it, we call them as man; above it, we call them as God!

Never let a little man to sit on a big chair; that would be a big disaster!

The greater number of men are merely corporals.

organizations like the church or General Motors promote a man up and up until he reaches a spot which he is obviously incapable of filling, and there they lay him to rest.

The man who occupies the first place seldom plays the principal part.

It already appears, that there must be in every society of men superiors and inferiors, because God has laid in the constitution and course of nature the foundations of the distinction.

Slave girls on Gor address all free men as Master, though, of course only one such would be her true Master.

Money is the god of our time, and Rothschild is his prophet.

We live by the Golden Rule. Those who have the gold make the rules.

Prestige is the shadow of money and power.

At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I'm afraid that's not quite right.

I've been related to everything. Even the production; I knew how much it cost, I knew where the money went. It didn't last long, because hierarchy came back again.

There are no hierarchies in nature other than those imposed by hierarchical modes of human thought, but rather differences merely in function between and within living things.

I do not see a delegation for the four-footed. I see no seat for the eagles. We forget and we consider ourselves superior.

The nature of show business is people within the business feel that if someone else fails, they move up a notch.

People are learning to grasp the diversity of nature, to understand its unifying principles and to sweep away the hierarchies and see the real connections.

It is the ant, not the lion, which the elephant fears.

Social hierarchy doesn't hold a candle to the power of feeling isolated in your own skin.

Don't put the cart before the horse.

Cats are kindly masters, just so long as you remember your place.