Quotes and Sayings about Status
Anonymous: It’s nice to be important, but it’s more important to be nice.
Anonymous: If they don’t want to play with you, then you don’t want to play with them.
Anonymous: Remember where you came from.
Anonymous: The best way to judge a teacher is to ask who his instructors were and who his students are.
Bernhard Wicki: Status symbols are medals you buy yourself.
Harold Coffin: A status symbol is anything you can’t afford, but did.
Italian saying: Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back into the same box.
Lord Mancroft: All men are born equal, but quite a few eventually get over it.
Napoleon Bonaparte: Soldiers win battles and generals get the credit.
Ralph Butler: Advertising promotes that divine discontent which makes people strive to improve their economic status.
Robert Frost: The difference between a man and his valet: they both smoke the same cigars, but only one pays for them.
Willard Gaylin: Many of the quests for status symbols — the hot automobile, the best table in a restaurant or a private chat with the boss — are shadowy reprises of infant anxieties. . . . The larger office, the corner space, the extra window are the teddy bears and tricycles of adult office life.
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